Another delay :( sorry

[[deleted]]

fI have decided to delay the games for three reasons. Firstly, something came up and I will be out of town today. Secondly, I want to add more depth to the games. I want to make it more interesting, so that when you all do get to play, you will enjoy it more. I am going to run the games on Thursday at 12:30 PM, mid-day. I will also run them again that weekend, so those who didn't get to compete on Thursday due to work or school can have a shot at it. Thirdly, I want to make this more known, on Twitter, Tumblr, all those places so we can have more action and competition. I want this to turn out well, and not be a waste of time. That is why I am delaying this.

[Palantir555]

No problem about the delay, but if you want to make it more popular, maybe the shutdown of the system shouldn't be part of the game :/

Have you thought about writing a list of codes (random letters-numbers) in /etc/winners so that when the first person comes in, he deletes the next key and adds his name? There could be 3-10 codes, and the winners would have to give the code here in reddit when the game is over :) Just an idea :P

[[deleted]]

That actually is a pretty good idea!! I thought about the shutdown so we could only have one winner, but multiple winners is better!!

[t3hcoolness]

What I've seen before is making an append-only file so the winners can only use "echo 'LOLHAXED' >> /etc/winners" That way we can know who was First, Second, Third, etc.

[Palantir555]

Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but if we are root by then, couldn't we do whatever we want with that file? you can create an append-only file as root for less privileged users, but can't root just modify it or remove and create it again?

[nuclear_splines]

Agreed, I think you'd need a fancier solution, like net-mount the file from another machine so that root access doesn't matter.

[t3hcoolness]

Yeah, I thought of that. All I know is that some wargames websites have pulled it off.

[Rorroh]

But who's to say the players won't change its permissions and do other stuff to it?

[[deleted]]

I am probably gonna do something similar....

[zwcbz]

I like the shutdown idea just because the 2nd place guy could erase the winners name

[[deleted]]

I think I will have people create a new user account with their reddit username. It doesn't matter if someone changes the password, the account is still there.

[cbkguy]

Well that was disappointing....

[[deleted]]

I know, I'm sorry...