Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:32:34 -0600 (MDT) From: Jobe <jobe@attrition.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Documentation of security features Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990919193210.13128D-100000@forced.attrition.org> In-Reply-To: <199909191824.LAA55646@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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And how is this security related? Maybe I am missing something. --Jobe On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > At 10:31 AM 9/19/99 -0600, Jobe wrote: > > > > >These files are 23k, are there really enough of them to take up 'Megs of > > >Space'? > > > > If it's done for every shell command, it'll take up a LOT of room. > > It has been done for every shell command, that was the new builtin(1) > that was just recently commited. And from a quick look there are > 78 of them, 78*23K is not a lot of space 1.8MB. But the bigger > picture is that when you now say ``man fg'' you should get the > new builtin(1) man page, which is far smaller (uncompressed: > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7195 Sep 19 11:18 builtin.1). This > man page refers you to sh(1), or csh(1) for full details. This > should greatly reduce the size of the clutter (562KBytes uncompressed). > > Now there is one more problem, and that is what I think is really > going on here with the person reporting non-linked files. They are > looking in /usr/share/man/cat* at the formatted cache, now that can > grow as man(1)'s cache can't tell if the source files are hard linked > and generates an individual formatted copy for each man entry, even > if it already has it filed under another name. > > > > > > >People need to start posting more meaningful things, and stop > > >inventing reasons to post to this mailing list. > > > > Documenting key security options is meaningful, IMHO. If nothing > > else, we should add links for securelevel and similar things that > > users are not finding. > > Then go make ptx(info) produce the full blown permuted index again > and be done with it. That is the standard unix tool for finding > just about everything about anything in the manual pages. It has > been missing for far to long to ignore any longer!! > > > -- > Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the messagehelp
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