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To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Subject: Re: Security (was: Re: Two commands: icat and ils) 
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 06:58:08 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: Why ? Security must be enforced with proper protections, not by
: simply trying to hide information which *is* available.

The standard reason that is given is that it bypasses all file system
checks...  However, you need to be root to run it, so maybe that isn't
such a horrible thing.

Warner