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Re: Man page owner



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?

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