Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:09:10 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@ark.cris.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man Makefile man.c src/etc/mtree BSD.local.dist BSD.usr.dist BSD.x11-4.dist BSD.x11.dist Message-ID: <20020117120910.M27310@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200201161933.g0GJXGn72831@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020115224951.59548D-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20020116154210.A74132@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20020116174352.C13904@sunbay.com> <20020116171144.C18043@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20020116183712.G13904@sunbay.com> <20020116181625.B757@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20020116195429.J13904@sunbay.com> <20020116200128.L13904@sunbay.com> <20020116203816.B99450@ark.cris.net> <200201161933.g0GJXGn72831@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:38:16 +0200, Alexey Zelkin <phantom@ark.cris.net> said: > > > unsetenv(3) ? > > I'd like to suggest that man(1) should clean out the environment > before running groff. The normal policy of the security weenies is > ``deny by default'' and I don't see any reason why it should be > different in this case. > It's moot whether it should be done always, or when man(1) runs with setuid privileges turned on. I think man(1) should allow user to provide custom GROFF_TMAC_PATH for his own manpages, no? <PS> Garrett, please don't exclude my email from replies, I didn't ask for it by setting up Mail-Followup-To:. Thanks. </PS> Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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