26085 2003-08-06 16:21 0000 nethack-3.4.1 should be installed suid games, currently broken 2003-08-07 20:35:22 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 eharney@clemson.edu games@gentoo.org eharney@clemson.edu 2003-08-06 16:21:27 0000 nethack should be installed as suid games for the "nethack" executable in /usr/share/games/nethack. It isn't, and therefore errors on startup cannot function properly. chmod u+s /usr/share/games/nethack/nethack fixes the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge nethack 2. see that your user is in games group 3. see "lock perm" permission errors when running nethack Actual Results: nethack began to run and errored with "No write permission to lock perm!" and then quit. vapier@gentoo.org 2003-08-06 18:21:46 0000 if you -s the binary and 660 /usr/share/games/nethack/{record,logfile,perm}, does it work ? please review #16164 and #22952 to see why i wont set it +s ;) eharney@clemson.edu 2003-08-06 18:35:34 0000 No, that didn't work. I _think_ to do that the user account has to have it's primary group set as games(?). Doing what you said gave the same problem with permission on "perm" as it had when I installed it. eharney@clemson.edu 2003-08-06 18:40:14 0000 I checked with a user with games group as the main group, and it didn't work on that account either. wolf31o2@gentoo.org 2003-08-07 05:50:16 0000 Groups in *nix make no distinction between primary and any other groups except that the primary group is used during file creation. eharney@clemson.edu 2003-08-07 07:47:38 0000 Alright, well I'm not an expert on this stuff... but all I know is that when I emerge nethack, I can't play it. I'm pretty sure that shouldn't happen.. has anyone else seen this? vapier@gentoo.org 2003-08-07 20:35:22 0000 ok, lock files and all that fun stuff have been moved to /var/games/nethack/ emerge -r1 and it should work for you