'locate' does not check permissions

[Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@terra.com.br>]

Hi list,

   I created a directory /home/pzn/private/ and chmod it go-rwx to put my private things.
   Then nobody can see the contents and files of this directory, right? I've believed it was true, but other user can do:

   $ ls -l ~pzn/
     ...
     drwx--S---   20 pzn      pzn          4096 Mai 16 09:54 private
     ...
   $ locate private | grep "/home/pzn/private"
     the whole contents of my private dir suddenly appears here...

   Why doesn't locate/updatedb saves the permissions?


   Thanks in advance,
      Pedro

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