On 17 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote: > Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How about adding a group "gamesadmin" to the system and making all level > > definitions etc. owned by this group. > > Sounds like overkill to me. > > I think you should go with the simple solution - the builtin levels > are not writable, but you can specify levels from the command line.
That doesn't seem "simple" to me. It requires that a lot of games be patched to allow for a command-line switch to override the location of data files. > Users can then just put levels in their home dirs, and they can let > other people play them if they want. I agree that this would be a more elegant solution, but it would also require a lot of effort from the maintainers of games with an option to edit levels. A "gamesadmin" group would be a much simpler solution. I don't think it is overkill to add this group. It is just one group and it would serve all games that need to differentiate between the average mortal game-playing user and someone with more rights and powers. The alternative (besides rewriting a lot of games) is to run games as root. I don't want that and I don't think you are trying to advocate it either. Cheers, Joost
