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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 1996 20:39:21 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru>
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man Makefile man.c
Message-ID:  <199606221839.UAA07135@campa.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <199606221555.TAA02217@nagual.ru>
References:  <199606221143.NAA00457@campa.panke.de> <199606221555.TAA02217@nagual.ru>

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KOI8-R writes:
>> I thought the general consensus was a sgid man, not suid.
>
>I don't see how sgid man can be better than suid man now, 

Security, security, security. Principle of least privilege.


>but I see
>that sgid man requires additional changes in the permissions
>and man utils.

minor changes.


>I don't hear that it is general consensus too.

Look into the mailing list archive. 

Wolfram



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