Note: Squake is not installed suid root by default, because it has known
security holes. So, you should be root to run it. If you wish, you can make
it suid root, and the permissions will be preserved when you upgrade the
package, if you have the suidmanager package installed. Note that you will
actually need to change the permissions of /usr/games/squake.real.

Also note that squake is a wrapper script, that sets up a ~/.quake/
directory, and runs the real quake program. This lets each user have thier
own quake config files, saved games, etc. The .pak files are symlinks, to
save disk space.

-- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>