Problem with hpux 11.23

[david_974]

Hi,
I have a itanium server with hpux 11.23 OS installed.
I have a problem when i create a new user, this user can't do man to any command, why?
I check the enviroment variables PATH AND MANPATH, and these are ok.
Please help,

Thanks,

[inventsekar_1]

1.) how u created the user..thru command or sam... if cmd, what command?
2.) when user do man, what msg he is getting..any error msg something..?
3.) can you post the "env" commands output for that user?

[Michael Steele_2]

Can another user access the man pages?

what are the permissions on /usr/share/man? (should be 555 or 755)

what are the permissions on
/usr/share/man/man1.Z/chmod.1? (should be 777 on dir.s and 666 on files.)

[Bill Hassell]

Did someone try to "improve" security for the man page files? All man pages must be readable by every user (444) but the man pages in the cat*.Z directories must be 666 in order for reformatting to work. If the cat*.Z files are not writable, the man pages will always display the "formatting - please wait).

[david_974]

HI,
The following messages is present:
[/home/backup]$ man ioscan
aborted (sorry)
[/home/backup]$

The users was created with sam.
On the superusers this error is not present.

Please help.
Thanks.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom david,

Bill is almost undoubtedly correct.

Super user can see every file no problem.

Regular users can't see the files because someone changed permissions.

Follow Bill's instructions precisely and the problem will go away. Check those permissions again.

:-)

SEP

[Bill Hassell]

Note that file permissions are only half of the requirement. The other requirement is that the directories allow all users to see the contents. The fullpath to /usr/share/man should be at least 555 for all the directories down to the mac and cat directories.