Linux Client not multi-user/security friendly

[Learner]

The Linux version of the Client is not multi-user friendly for allowing it to be installed in a directory for which you don't have write permissions (like /usr/local/games/eternal-lands). There are several logs and config files that get written in that directory. Without write permission for those files, the game crashes. Those files should probably go to a ~/.eternal-lands directory. You could have it read the default config from the home directory if it doesn't exist in a users directory.

 

Similarly I expect similar problems under Windows XP for users that are flagged as having 'limited access'.

[duran]

why not just have every user keep a nice copy of the entire eternal lands folder? its not that big...

[Entropy]

Currently, the game has no installer, as you can see, so it's entirely the user's responsibility to do the instalation manually. Later on, after we go past the Beta stage, we'll have 2 installers...

[Leeloo]

AFAIK, it is not yet possible to (even manually) do a split installation, with the user-writable files in ~/.eternal-lands, and everything else in /usr/local/games/eternal-lands.

 

If you want, I can take a look at it, it shouldn't be so hard to fix. But what to do about windows users then? C:Program files versus C:Documents and settings, or just keep it the usual way?

[Learner]

Currently, the game has no installer, as you can see, so it's entirely the user's responsibility to do the instalation manually. Later on, after we go past the Beta stage, we'll have 2 installers...

No problems with no installers, for a Beta that is expected.

[Entropy]

Maybe later on i'll put the paths in el.ini...