From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jul 12 05:55:15 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA03493 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 05:55:15 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA03487 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 05:55:14 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id FAA02041 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 05:55:09 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA28536; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:51:48 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA29915; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:51:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA09830; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 10:24:00 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507120824.KAA09830@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bugs & problems in 2.0.5 To: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 10:24:00 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, bugs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507120713.JAA01874@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Jul 12, 95 09:13:42 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 739 Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Thomas Graichen wrote: > > > Only the cat entries must be owned by man. The man dir and man? > > subdirs belong to bin. > > but again: > > graichen@titania:~> ls -ld /usr/share/man > drwxr-xr-x 10 bin bin 512 Jul 8 03:31 /usr/share/man/ > > that means - echo /usr/bin/catman | nice -5 ... can not create the cat* > directories because it should run run su man (as itself says it) and thus can > not write into /usr/share/man Sure, and it should not be allowed to write there. The bug is that the empty cat? directories have not been created (and chown'ed to `man'). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)