Hi! I hope this message finds you well. We have identified an issue in the categorization of certain commands in the man-pages and would like to bring it to your attention. Upon testing on Debian 11, we observed discrepancies between the stated privilege requirements in the manual pages and the actual behavior of some commands. According to the introduction pages, commands in section 8 require superuser privileges to run, but we found some commands that do not necessitate superuser privileges for execution: lnstat, findfs, blkid, lsblk, lsmod, lspci, modinfo, isosize, lastlog, tzselect, zdump, getcap, getpcaps, mklost_found, tracepath. These commands predominantly query system information and do not involve sensitive resources. For example, lnstat print Linux network statistics, the statics comes from /proc/net/stat which could be read by anyone. Lastlog reports the most recent login users, the similar commands like last, printky and users are all in section 1. And it is clearly stated in tracepath(8) that the command does not require superuser privileges. The introduction of section 1 claims that those commands to be user commands, but some commands require superuser privileges to run: dumpkeys, fgconsole, kbdindo, kbd_mode, showkey, deallocvt, tcpdump, chage, gpasswd, mesg, mkfifo. These commands manipulate special resources like keyboards, virtual terminals and pipes. Notably, tcpdump exists in both Section 1 and Section 8, but it can only be used with privileges. To enhance clarity and align with the intended privilege requirements, we recommend adjusting the categorization of these commands. This adjustment will ensure that users referring to the manual pages can accurately configure command permissions without unnecessary use of privileges and contribute to a more intuitive and accurate manual page structure. Best regards, Jingzi
