WARNING: SCO-Xenix game "hack", setuid root NO DANGER, OOOOPS

[Chip Rosenthal]

In article <1991Apr18.213843.18297 at odbffm.incom.de>
	oli at odbffm.incom.de (Oliver Boehmer) writes:
>But one thing I'd really like to know: Why the &/%$"&/ is hack setuid? 

So that it can write bones and other such stuff to the games library
directory.  You might want to try creating a `games' UID, chown
everything under /usr/games/lib to it, and making hack setuid to
`games'.  This is the approach SCO takes with games distribution under
UNIX.
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