Debian bug report logs - #931
'man' doesn't work for other users?

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From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
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Subject: Re:  Bug#931: 'man' doesn't work for other users?

Make it setuid "man", not "root". I'll take care of this right away.

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From: karl@orion.tower.com.au (Karl Ferguson)
Subject: 'man' doesn't work for other users?
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Package: man
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Hi...

I'm not entirely sure if this is a bug or not, but here goes...

When I run 'man' (with a manual page of course) it says:

[karl@orion:5:~]man ls
man: can't set effective uid: Operation not permitted

It will *only* work as root.  In my fustration, I made 'man' setuid root
for everyone - and the same error occoured.  Is this meant to be for
the root user only?  Because I'd really like other userid's to be able
to use it...

Regards,

...Karl

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