Re: man-db cron.daily job
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 [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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