[11143] in bugtraq
Re: Troff dangerous.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Moore)
Tue Jul 27 04:59:49 1999
Message-Id: <19990726063809.1AA08D3DC@lovecraft.chem.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 02:38:09 -0400
Reply-To: Eric Moore <moore@LOVECRAFT.CHEM.CMU.EDU>
From: Eric Moore <moore@LOVECRAFT.CHEM.CMU.EDU>
X-To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jul 1999 17:33:37 +0200."
<19990725173337.A2181@hades.chaoz.org>
Another, perhaps less intrusive/time consuming alternative is to
change the TROFF and NROFF lines in /etc/man.conf with:
TROFF /usr/bin/groff -S -Tps -mandoc
NROFF /usr/bin/groff -S -Tascii -mandoc
(that is, add the -S switch)
-S Safer mode. Pass the -S option to pic and use the
-msafer macros with troff.
see also "man 7 msafer"
-Eric
