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
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Ignore the future and you have already failed!


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