Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:53:37PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: >> I'll bet (have not verified) that you can already trick it into writing >> bogus file by sticking trojan pages elsewhere in your manpath. > >i just tried it, did not end up with a cached file. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ export MANPATH=/home/eb/test >[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ find /var/cache/man -name 'bogus*' >[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -l /home/eb/test/man8/ >total 8 >-rw-r--r-- 1 eb eb 5193 Jan 3 23:03 bogus.8 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ man bogus >Reformatting bogus(8), please wait... >... >[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ find /var/cache/man -name 'bogus*'
Yes, there's no MANDB_MAP entry in /etc/manpath.config for /home/eb/test. 'MANPATH=/home/eb/test manpath -c' will tell you the catpath corresponding to a given manpath. I don't know if it's possible to subvert this. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
