Re: Games (faking scores and things btw)

[ketil ii uib no]

Horacio J. Peņa <horape@compendium.com.ar> writes:

> a pretty problem. It's the same problem all saved games have. The users
> can edit them. So anyone can have 100,000 points (5 times the best score

> 2. Have a wrapper (suid games) that writes the saved games. But, more SUID 
> things?

2.5 make it suid bin or games, not suid root, which is somewhat safer.
Another problem is that some systems disallow suid programs, in
particular over NFS.

> 3. Avoid saved games. But we would be lossing funcionality.
> 4. Educate users. (OK, we have 3 options :-)

5. encrypt the score file somehow (okay, so the user can hack the
source and work it out)

~kzm
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