On 05/08/2013 13:18, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote: > When I am running the ioquake3 1.36 server on linux at booting, I don't want > to run it as the "root" user because it is not safe. > I prefer to use an "ioq3" user dedicated to this task. > This is what happened when I run the server as the "ioq3" user using sudo as > "root": > # sudo -u ioq3 /usr/games/quake3/ioq3ded.i386 +exec yugiohjcj.config > ioq3 1.36 linux-i386 Sep 23 2012 > ----- FS_Startup ----- > Unable to create directory "/root/.q3a", error is Permission denied(13) > > ... > > We can see that the program wants to write into the "/root" directory. > The "ioq3" user has not the permission to write to this directory. > What is the best strategy to correct this behavior ?
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