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Re: exploring debian's users and groups



Colin Watson wrote:
> It's no longer used by default, but is still supported, and
> /var/cache/man is owned by user man. Personally, I happen to like having
> the preformatted pages, I just don't like having to fix the security
> bugs that result. :)

Agreed. Is the man group used for anything at all?

> Incidentally, /var/cache/man has been man:root mode 2755 on Debian for a
> long time. Is it just me, or is the setgid bit rather unnecessary?

Presumably no point if man always runs as user man. Hmm, if man is not
setuid, and root runs man and it writes a cat page, this bit may be
useful to make the cat page come out owned by user man.

-- 
see shy jo



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