Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 11.0 and man pages

factory (11.0):
- -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 10648 May 31 00:52 /usr/bin/man

10.3:
- -rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 5884 Sep 22 2007 /usr/bin/man

Same as on my system, and that didn't work for me... I would be
interested in your testing when you have time.

I don't understand why man needs to be suid? It's only about reading
docs, there nothing privileged about that. Why? There must be a
reason somewhere.

That's because man pages are pre-processed, and then cached: the
file /etc/permissions, pointed to by another poster, contains the
following:

/var/cache/man man:root 755

which indicates the location of that cache, and its user/group.
Apparently, man needs to be able to write in that directory, or it
shows a blank page (at least on my system)

I still wasn't able to submit the issue on bugzilla, because Novell
still hasn't sent me the confirmation email for my account. I guess
there are too many people downloading openSUSE right now...

Emmanuel
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