I am working on adding a high score list to a game written in C. (It's already packaged.) The high score list will be 664 root:games and the game binary will be sgid games --- nothing special here. I want to dump and undump the list. Allowing everyone to undump the list will lead to cheating or even security problems, so I want to make sure that only the superuser may undump. Since the binary is sgid, some check is necessary before trying to write the list.
The problem is that there is fakeroot. getuid() == 0 or geteuid() == 0 is not enough. PAM is an overkill. I think seteuid(0) == 0 is the best approach. Any opinion? -- Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer PGP key (key ID F464A695) http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = 6142 8D07 9C5B 159B C170 1F4A 40D6 F42E F464 A695 smile to answer --- Treasure, "Radiant Silvergun", attitude #3 for SBS-130
