Is it considered a security risk to allow ~ or shell environment variables
in the argument to .so? For example,
.so ~/.groffrc
.so $HOME/.groffrc
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> Is it considered a security risk to allow ~ or shell environment
> variables in the argument to .so? For example,
>
> .so ~/.groffrc
>
> .so $HOME/.groffrc
I don't think so. All `dangerous' requests like `.open' or `.sy' are
enabled only if you add the `-U' flag to groff.
Werner
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