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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Andreas Fredriksson
[mailto:andreas.fredriksson@dice.se]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 10, 2004
12:11 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'bf1942@icculus.org'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [bf1942]
bfv server le duexieme essai<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=008190717-10032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
only way you can get around this </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=008190717-10032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>is by running
the server with write access to the
mods/bfvietnam/settings</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=008190717-10032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>directory or die trying :-)</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=008190717-10032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2><SPAN class=302131317-10032004>i'm not sure what you mean here. getpwuid
returns the password file entry for the current euid. i was using this to find
the current user's home directory (mostly to mimic the intent of the call on
windows, which was my first mistake :-). non-final builds failed w/ a message,
but final builds just crash :-(</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=008190717-10032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If
you are concerned with security you can easily set up a sandbox settings
directory for a restricted user and</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=008190717-10032004><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2>run the server with +overlayPath /home/dummyuser/writehere or something
similar.<SPAN
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<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=008190717-10032004><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=302131317-10032004>hey, you're talking to
the guy who doesn't lock his workstation when going to lunch! no paranoia
here.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=008190717-10032004><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=302131317-10032004>anyway, i think the
'right' thing to do here is just punt on the whole home directory thing and just
use the settings path (which will use the overlay path if it has been set) which
is what i would have seen if i had been checking 1.6 more frequently
:-)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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