On Friday 12 March 2004 02:04 pm, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Mar 12, 2004, at 1:06 PM, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Okay, I did a "ls -al /usr/bin/man" here and got the same file > > permissions so > > I guess we struck out there. > > > > Next. What security level did he install at? I'm using standard and > > many > > things change when you go up the scale (for example, in some > > instances you > > can't even log in as root). If its higher, and he does not want to > > lower it, > > then you might have to do something with msec to allow non-root > > users to use > > man. > > Hi thanks. I did get one way of solving it. Turns out that > /usr/share/man, the root of the normal man page repository, is owned > rpm:rpm and does not have any other permissions > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/chad # ls -al /usr/share/man > drwxr-x--- 23 rpm rpm 4096 Mar 17 2003 ./ > > If I add o+x to it to give > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/chad # ls -al /usr/share/man > total 236 > drwxr-x--x 23 rpm rpm 4096 Mar 17 2003 ./ > > > then other users can use man. > > He is running at a higher level of security (4??) but I would have to > go check what level. > > msec will probably change it back so I will probably have to figure > out again (for the 3rd or 4th time) how to manipulate the msec tables > :-) to get it to stick > > But should /usr/share/man be owned by rpm:rpm? > > Thanks > Chad
-- FWIW; mine is ownd by root grp root dwrxr-xr-x root root Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed!
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