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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>
Cc:        un_x <un_x@anchorage.net>, freebsd-hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: manpages
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970424113009.10264W-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970423181036.2474B-100000@narcissus.ml.org>

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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



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