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Date:      Sun, 23 Jun 1996 00:56:06 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru>
To:        wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
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:  <199606222056.AAA00484@nagual.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199606221839.UAA07135@campa.panke.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at "Jun 22, 96 08:39:21 pm"

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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.

sgid man decreases security in current variant, it is pretty clear.
group > single user

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

[any word you like] changes is additional ones.

> >I don't hear that it is general consensus too.
> 
> Look into the mailing list archive. 

Just look and found only your idea of doing that.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.ru>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/



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