David Faure wrote:

>>I have a problem with klickety and kmines:
>>/home/daf}kmines
>>The KDE libraries are not designed to run with suid privileges.
>>/home/daf}klickety
>>The KDE libraries are not designed to run with suid privileges.
>>
>>/home/daf}(cd /usr/local/bin; ls -l klickety kmines)
>>-rwxr-sr-x 1 root bin 147716 Sep 4 05:40 klickety
>>-rwxr-sr-x 1 root bin 240228 Sep 4 05:40 kmines
>>/home/daf}

> Those are games, why should they be suid root?

Technically, they're only sgid bin, not suid root.

kdegames includes the feature to be able to write to a global "hiscore"
file/directory, using sgid.

-- Rex

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