From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dt4In-00015E-Jv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:03:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6EE22ba025091; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:02:02 GMT Received: from s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de (s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.60.22]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6EDvNnv021024 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:57:23 GMT Received: from vpn-3102.gwdg.de ([134.76.3.102] helo=butch.nik13.home) by s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.22) id 1Dt4DR-00005m-7m for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:57:29 +0200 Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:55:05 +0200 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/man SGID ? Message-Id: <20050714155505.7c8d3653.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <42D66899.9020905@gmx.net> References: <42D66899.9020905@gmx.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i386-pc-dragonfly1) X-Face: ?%{N&v`I$/2&hU/l[fz~s5ETugSOp`~y,.e%_7S0cRnkJ!hD&DbkIR;;>t`-uvSs1,][|;;Z0|SS=_yW(db!q|_s/q"G^.qrVrk4;&.1fg8lZ@Kn=&`ePL.e.N{ZIS%ZN%+O4(xa9=j[HXpQdlGrr'%xZ]vQp1doD"u"W%qM$w$ySo@t,&$A1]\unoo@d"X{)Wa2MaW-axG|lRiC;/gVmgI Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5264d81d-816b-4f2f-8b9e-c59967edcb3c X-Archives-Hash: 1275de86b743b5309cf598af372632ff Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:28:57 +0200 Jarry wrote: > Does /usr/bin/man really have to have SGID-bit on? Why? For caching the rendered man pages for all users, IMHO. > I just checked one debian-box, where /usr/bin/man is without SGID... On debian, if configured to be chatty when installing packages, one is asked upon installation of the "man" package if it should be set SGID. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list