Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3625 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Emmanuel Briot <briot@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> One small issue with openSUSE: if I type "man man" as a user, I get a
> blank page. If, however, I do the same command as root, I do get the
> actual man page. This is a freshly installed sysadmin, after some Yast2
> update in the community repositories.
>
> I guess there are some permissions issue here. Do we need to
> set /usr/bin/man as setuid, wouldn't that be dangereous ?

Could you run "SuSEconfig" to set permissions?  Does that help?

It works for me on my updated system,
Andreas
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