Re: locatedb question

[Mike Dresser <mdresser@windsormachine.com>]

I believe there's a restricted locate, called slocate.  Then again, it
looks like it's trying to do the same thing anyways, so that's what's
confusing me.

Fortunately, I have no shell users =)

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Robert Waldner wrote:

>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:27:09 EDT, Mike Dresser writes:
> >Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000
> >files from the locatedb.  Looking through the cron.daily, i see updatedb
> >runs as nobody.  Is there a particular danger in running this as other
> >than nobody?
>
> On multi-user-systems, yes.
>
> Imagine files like
>
> waldner:~$ ls -al .cryptfile
> -rw-------  1 waldner  waldner  1073741824 Jul 17 13:32 .cryptfile
>
> Well, there´s no point in making files only readable by specific users/
>  groups if locate would locate them just nicely for everyone ;-)
>
> cheers,
> &rw