From: Marco P. <mel...@gm...> - 2009-01-30 13:51:21
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Anton Berezin <to...@to...> writes: > A lot of files are installed with world-writable permissions. In many cases > this is completely unwarranted (like, .gif files). In some cases there is > a plausible reason for this: scid tries to write something into > bases/matein* files when one goes through tactical exercises. This is, > however, an extremely bad style for (potentially multi-user) Unix systems. > Again, some sort of a workaround seems warranted - like copying those files > to ~/.scid directory upon first start or something. > Please see this script for the slackware package, which corrects the permissions and tries a workaround (writeble only for users in ``games'' group in /var/games/scid linked to /usr/share/scid). I added a section to the debian manpage, suggesting to put these files in ~/.scid <http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/12.2/games/scid.tar.gz> Marco |