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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:31:07 +1000 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: manpages
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > /usr/share/man/cat* should be owned by man.bin, mode 755
> > /usr/bin/man should be owned by man.bin, mode 4555 (-r-sr-xr-x)
> 
> Why should man be setuid?  Mine isn't and it works fine.

So it can write catpages into /usr/share/man/cat*

Danny