Jude DaShiell wrote: > > The setgid is normal. But your permissions on the directory have been > > corrupted. You could probably fix the permissions. Or purge and > > re-install but that would of course lose any of your saved games. > > Using chmod the first digit would be a 7 and the third digit a 5 but what > would rws be for that second digit?
You want all of the directories to be drwxrwsr-x root games and all of
the files to be -rw-rw-r-- root games.
# find /var/games/nethack -exec chown -v root:games {} +
# find /var/games/nethack -type d -exec chmod -v a=rx,ug+w,g+s {} +
# find /var/games/nethack -type f -exec echo chmod -v a=r,ug+w {} +
The find will traverse the directories finding files. The -exec will
execute the command on the found files. The -v option will tell the
commands to tell you what they are doing, which is a GNU extension but
you are using Debian so okay. The "a=" part sets up the base
permission in this case with a=rx meaning r-xr-xr-x and then the ug+w
adds write permission for user and group to rwxrwxr-x and the g+s
adds set-gid to rwxrwsr-x and should correct your problem.
That should fix the nethack /var directory okay. But if those
permissions were munged then what else on your system was broken too?
Bob
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