Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:40:32 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cjclark@home.com, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump(8) Insecurity/Misconfiguration Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909261827060.4642-100000@alphplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <199909260216.WAA02587@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:03:23 -0400 (EDT), "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> said: > > > "Dump cannot do remote backups without being run as root, due to its secu- > > rity history. This will be fixed in a later version of FreeBSD. Present- > > ly, it works if you set it setuid (like it used to be), but this might > > constitute a security risk." > > Oof! Really awful language for a manual page. (Manual pages should > never use the second person.) Where are the man page style guide and the man page style police? Our man pages have 5813 lines matching the regexp " [Yy]ou ". 763 of our 3190 man pages contain such a line (counting links multiply). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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