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author | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2023-04-09 16:10:08 +0100 |
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committer | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2023-04-09 16:10:08 +0100 |
commit | 208b358a652970a223d5c34f5b776bf080a2037c (patch) | |
tree | 8b949df8bf9689165782766c5c2165f780c40fcf /NEWS.md | |
parent | 7ef30573a7023eb78bf70a34edaa4e3906531993 (diff) |
mandb: Warn if not running as cache owner
Fixes https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues/17.
* src/mandb.c (main): If effective user ID doesn't match the configured
cache owner (if any), and the `--quiet` option wasn't used, then issue a
warning.
* NEWS.md: Document this.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS.md')
-rw-r--r-- | NEWS.md | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Improvements: * Work around the Firebuild accelerator in `seccomp` sandbox: if this is in use then we need to allow some socket-related system calls. * `man -K` now deduplicates search results that point to the same page. + * Warn if `mandb` drops to `--user-db` mode due to running as the wrong + user. man-db 2.11.2 (8 January 2023) ============================== |