"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Hmm. nosuid on mounts may just not honor the set user id for | executables. On the other hand, the manual page tells me that nosuid | makes it ignore suid bits. (see man mount). So, semantically, those | permissions are just rwxr-x-r-x, and even if yuur user is in the 'root' | group, he cannot view the directory contents (because 'x' in a | directory means permission to enter & view the contents).
I see, some years ago I configured /var in fstab like: /dev/hda10 /var ext2 owner,exec,errors=remount-ro and though i knew i din't think too much about that 'owner' implies nosuid. | First, try mounting /var without the nosuid part. (How do i trigger a normal cron man-db run ?) ... I'll see tomorrow. | The way this ought to work (and I thought it did) was for example, | a hypothetical user looks at a frequently used man page I seem to remember in the past one got asked at installation time if manpages should be cached that way, or not, and i used to asnwer yes. But AFAIKR there wasn't such a question at the last etch install i did (few days agao). Maybe they ditched it altogether. Thanks for your suggestion, i'll report if it worked. micha ° /\/
