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 -- -- You are in a maze of twisty little Linux distros, all different. -- Abigail, asr ----
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