The code will be fixed for all known security vulnerabilities,
and a make.conf(5) knob (ENABLE_SUID_MAN) will be provided for
those who still want it installed setuid for whatever reasons.
The catpaging and setuidness features of man(1) combined make
it vulnerable to a number of security attacks. Specifically,
it was possible to overwrite system catpages with arbitrarily
contents by either setting up a symlink to a directory holding
system catpages, or by writing custom -mdoc or -man groff(1)
macro packages and setting up GROFF_TMAC_PATH in environment
to point to them. (See PR below for details).
This means man(1) can no longer create system catpages on a
regular user's behalf. (It is still able to if the user has
write permissions to the directory holding catpages, e.g.,
user's own manpages, or if the running user is ``root''.)
To create and install catpages during ``make world'', please
set MANBUILDCAT=YES in /etc/make.conf. To rebuild catpages
on a weekly basis, please set weekly_catman_enable="YES" in
/etc/periodic.conf.
PR: bin/32791
LC_MESSAGES related data was installed to <locale>/LC_MESSAGES file.
Now it go to <locale>/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES file. LC_MESSAGES
directory is supposed to be storage of message catalogs of userland tools.
This should allow us to avoid many potential problems with future
libintl related functionality introduction.
Thanks for useful suggestions about correct way how to replace plain
files with directories at installworld stage to: Ruslan Ermilov <ru>
BSDPAN is the collection of modules that provides tighter than ever
integration of Perl into BSD Unix.
Currently, BSDPAN does the following:
o makes p5- FreeBSD ports PREFIX-clean;
o registers Perl modules in the FreeBSD package database with a
package name derived from the module name.
The name is of the form: bsdpan-ModuleName-V.VV.
Anyone interested in where BSDPAN is developing should read Anton's
message to the ports mailling list:
Message-ID: <20010105040828.A26011@heechee.tobez.org>
Submitted by: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
