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is a program used to regulate game playing.
expects to be invoked with the name of a game that a user wishes to play.
This is done by creating symbolic links to
for all of the regulated games.
The actual binaries for these games should be placed in a
that may only be accessed by the
determines if the requested game is available and, if so, runs it.
controls the conditions under which games may
If the file exists, no game playing is allowed; the contents of the file
will be displayed to any user requesting a game.
.Bl -tag -width /var/log/games.log -compact
directory of ``real'' binaries
.It Pa /var/log/games.log
First, all games that allow users to run
commands should carefully
set both the real and effective user id's immediately before executing
those commands. Probably more important is that
so that compromising a game will result only in
the user's ability to play games at will. Secondly, games which previously
had no reason to run setuid and which accessed user files may have to
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