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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 1999 12:28:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      matt <matt@AIC-GW.MLINK.NET>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: slocate v1.6
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906081225490.4732-100000@aic-gw.mlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990608123149.A7512@bitbox.follo.net>

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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote:

[...]

: [1] I at least seem to remember it being setuid - it should really be
: enough to make it setgid, and add a group for it...

That is exactly what it does on install.

root[aic-gw]:/usr/bin# ls -l slocate
-rwxr-sr-x  1 root  slocate  41436 Jun  5 09:32 slocate*

root[aic-gw]:/etc# grep slocate group
slocate:*:30002:

And to clairfy, I was never trying to say how slocate is all better then
the default locate or whatnot, so I'm not trying to have a war or a 'my
dick is bigger then yours' type arguement... =) 
 
: Eivind.
 
Matt

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