On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Gordon Russell wrote: > Running the program as root solves this problem. On > inspection, the abuse.x version is SGID root, which > should instead probably be SUID root. This seems to solve > my problems. Too bad the games and gamma.lsp files are not saved > to the user's home directory instead, but then I don't expect you > have the source code to make this possible ;-).
That's a violation of Debian policy. If abuse needs to write to the gamma file, you should make the files writable by group 'games' and make abuse.x sgid games. Guy