Re: Man page owner
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:40:17PM +0000, Rich Walker wrote:
>
>> This is probably a question with an obvious answer, but I couldn't find
>> the answer.
>
>> Why are man pages installed with owner and group "root" rather than
>> owner and group "man"?
>
> Why would "man" need write access to the man pages?
Good point.
Just seemed ... odd.
cheers, Rich.
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