On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:30:57AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 02:42:33AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > my 'man' apparently runs with root privileges: > > > > $ ll /usr/lib/man-db > > total 220 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 26 00:55 ./ > > drwxr-xr-x 131 root root 36864 Sep 26 14:33 ../ > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 90684 Sep 19 02:20 man* <== > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 70844 Sep 19 02:20 mandb* > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4328 Sep 19 02:20 wrapper* > > No, the binary's just owned by root, and isn't setuid. No problem there. > > Oh, I guess man won't be dropping privileges, then, as it's configured > to when it's setuid ... that could explain this bug. Better fix that > before woody releases.
This was enough of a clue for me to work out why /var/cache/man/* directories sometimes end up owned by root. It's now fixed in man-db 2.3.20-4 in unstable. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
