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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man Makefile man.c
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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