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> > /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.

man(1) needs to be setuid so that it can write to the ${MANPATH}/cat?
directories which are owned by user 'man'.

If it works ok for you, then either (1) you're running without caching
manpages in the 'cat?' subdirectories or (2) permissions on those
directories allow anyone to write in there.