diff --git a/templates/man-db/template b/templates/man-db/template
index 8805872cbf9..38af1169941 100644
--- a/templates/man-db/template
+++ b/templates/man-db/template
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ distfiles="
 http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/man-db/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 build_style=gnu_configure
 configure_args="--with-db=gdbm --with-pager=less --with-gzip=/usr/bin/gzip
- --with-bzip2=/usr/bin/bzip2 --disable-rpath --enable-threads=posix"
+ --with-bzip2=/usr/bin/bzip2 --disable-rpath --enable-threads=posix
+ --disable-setuid"
 short_desc="The on-line manual database"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 checksum=c09beb094d2b35f99abed5a6b385863f2d03164416f899b01c8ef97fd1ebf3ef