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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Policies for games dirs, new group "gamestat" for sgid binaries
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:10:14
Message-Id: 21735.18657.814662.230409@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Policies for games dirs, new group "gamestat" for sgid binaries by Ulrich Mueller
1 >>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2
3 > In yesterday's meeting the QA team has unanimously accepted the
4 > following policies (see bug 537580 for details):
5
6 > 1. Directories /usr/games, /usr/games/bin, /usr/games/lib*,
7 > /usr/share/games, /var/games, /etc/games, and /opt must be owned
8 > by root:root and have permissions 755 (i.e. the default).
9
10 > This will require a small change in games.eclass, because currently
11 > prepgamesdirs() changes ownership of these directories to root:games
12 > and mode to 0750, so they are readable only by users that are members
13 > of the "games" group. With attached patch, games.eclass will no longer
14 > change permissions of the top-level directories (mostly, these are
15 > identical to the FHS locations).
16
17 > [...]
18
19 > 2. A new group to allow setgid binaries to access shared score/state
20 > files will be created. The name of this group will be "gamestat".
21
22 The change to games.eclass has been committed now, and the policy is
23 documented here:
24 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Policies#Games
25
26 Ulrich

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