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Bug 389081

Summary:	permission denied to run 'man'
Product:	Community	Reporter:	David Williams <david_williams>
Component:	Servers	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description David Williams

2012-09-07 14:07:29 EDT

$ man unzip
bash: /usr/bin/man: Permission denied

Seems shell users should be permitted to run man?

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2012-09-07 14:13:06 EDT

Way back when, man was root suid, so permissions were stripped.  Seems like suid is not needed anymore.

man away!