DM(8) BSD System Manager's Manual DM(8)NAMEdm — dungeon master
SYNOPSIS
ln -sdm game
DESCRIPTIONdm is a program used to regulate game playing. dm expects to be invoked
with the name of a game that a user wishes to play. This is done by cre‐
ating symbolic links to dm, in the directory /usr/games for all of the
regulated games. The actual binaries for these games should be placed in
a “hidden” directory, /usr/games/hide, that may only be accessed by the
dm program. dm determines if the requested game is available and, if so,
runs it. The file /etc/dm.conf controls the conditions under which games
may be run.
The file /etc/nogames may be used to “turn off” game playing. If the
file exists, no game playing is allowed; the contents of the file will be
displayed to any user requesting a game.
FILES
/etc/dm.conf configuration file
/etc/nogames turns off game playing
/usr/games/hide directory of ``real'' binaries
/var/log/games.log game logging file
SEE ALSOdm.conf(5)HISTORY
The dm command appeared in 4.3BSD-Tahoe.
SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
Two issues result from dm running the games setgid “games”. First, all
games that allow users to run UNIX commands should carefully set both the
real and effective group ids immediately before executing those commands.
Probably more important is that dm never be setgid anything but “games”
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 setgid and which accessed user files may have to be modified.
BSD May 31, 1993 BSD