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Re: SE Linux play machine



On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:20:17PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:03, Erich Schubert wrote:
> > You can't do anything^W any damage as man either ;)
> 
> I've changed the settings to allow setuid/setgid programs to work.  However 
> man runs as the same security context as the user so isn't allowed to do 
> anything you couldn't do.
> 
> Maybe I should just turn off the suid functionality in the man program, it 
> doesn't do anything particularly useful anyway.

If you don't want cat pages, then you don't really need it. It's still
there because it can make life more pleasant on slow machines (certainly
judging from the bug reports I get when cat pages aren't written for one
reason or another ...).

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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