On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:02:40AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Both /home an ~/ have permissions of 755, giving read access to everyone
(my wife and I are the only persons with physical access). However,
~/.mozilla has permissions of 700, no access to anyone but me!
Is it reasonable to let updatedb run as root, so that ALL directories
would be included, or is this a Bad Idea (TM)?
FWIW, my .mozilla is 755 but I don't know why that is.
Probably "safer" to just chmod .mozilla than have another process
running as root. I don't know what the dangers of running updatedb as
root could possibly be but...