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From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Security of NeXT systems (man pages in cat)
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.041140.19806@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 04:11:40 GMT
References: <1380@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1991Mar11.163150.7457@investor.pgh.pa.us> <regn.671389727@julia>
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In article <regn.671389727@julia> regn@informatik.uni-ulm.de (Robert Regn) writes:
>In <1991Mar11.163150.7457@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
>
>>>>             It is definitely a waste because on most systems the
>>>>vast majority of man pages are *never* examined by any user.  Those
>>>>pages that *are* examined get nroff'ed once when first needed and
>>>>are available for quick access from then on.
>
>>You can use cron to rm any that have not been accessed in some period of
>>time on the assumption that the query was a one-shot deal.
>
>Good idea, because of another problem:
>if a user with umask 077 reads a never before read  man page,
>then the catman - page isn't readable by other users.

     Have you *tried* this?  My umask is 027 and the permissions on
the formatted pages produced when I use man(1) come out as 666.
     BTW, you're responding to *very* old articles.  Please either
a) read all of them till you're caught up before posting followups
or b) junk everything up until the last few days and start reading
there before posting followups.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
                                  Systems Programming
                                  Northern Illinois University
                                  DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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