On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Antti Kantee wrote:

> On Sat Jul 15 2000 at 15:20:49 +0300, Arto Huusko wrote:
> 
> > The previous installation was source installation. But I fixed the
> > problem. I added myself to the games group because nethack-tty
> > is a setgid executable. But even this was not sufficient, because
> > the installation creates nethackdir read-only for group. After
> > I changed nethackdir writeable for group the game started fine.
> > But there was another bug in the installation as well: it does
> > not create the save file directory to nethackdir, so I had to
> > add this as well. After these steps the game works well.
> 
> Hmm, weird, last I tried a source installation it worked fine. Who uses
> binaries anyways?
> 
	Someone with large numbers of identical machines :)

> > I think these problems should be fixed: shouldn't packages be
> > ready to run installations? Oh, and after installation there
> > should be a note that players must be part of games group.
> > Or is it a thing that goes without saying :)
> 
> No, the executable is setgid games for the exact reason that players
> don't have to (and should not) belong to group games.

	They should definitely be fixed, for both source and binary
	installations - if you had a chance to look at it and submit
	any patches by send-pr it would be much appreciated...

                David/absolute
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