Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 10:24:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bugs & problems in 2.0.5 Message-ID: <199507120824.KAA09830@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199507120713.JAA01874@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Jul 12, 95 09:13:42 am
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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. ;-)
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