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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:09:10 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@ark.cris.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man Makefile man.c src/etc/mtree BSD.local.dist BSD.usr.dist BSD.x11-4.dist BSD.x11.dist
Message-ID:  <20020117120910.M27310@sunbay.com>
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:38:16 +0200, Alexey Zelkin <phantom@ark.cris.net> said:
> 
> > unsetenv(3) ?
> 
> I'd like to suggest that man(1) should clean out the environment
> before running groff.  The normal policy of the security weenies is
> ``deny by default'' and I don't see any reason why it should be
> different in this case.
> 
It's moot whether it should be done always, or when man(1) runs
with setuid privileges turned on.  I think man(1) should allow
user to provide custom GROFF_TMAC_PATH for his own manpages, no?

<PS>
Garrett, please don't exclude my email from replies, I didn't ask
for it by setting up Mail-Followup-To:.  Thanks.
</PS>


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