Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:04:13 -0500 From: Lee Gold <goldtech@worldpost.com> To: oberman@es.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix locate cmd Message-ID: <E17wajc-0003J3-00@smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net>
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> >Subject: Re: unix locate cmd > From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> ..snip.... > >Also, locate.updatedb runs as nobody so it will only index directories >and files with other read access. Oh. Maybe this is why even newbie questions are supposed to be posted here. So security issues for a new user (or any user) can be pointed out by those in the know. Ok. Would I repair the security of my locate db by running: /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate right now? would it overwrite the existing db and not just "add" to it? Thank you. > >From the man page for locate: > The locate database was built by user ``nobody''. find(1) skips directo- > ries, which are not readable for user ``nobody'', group ``nobody'', or > world. E.g. if your HOME directory is not world-readable, all your files > are not in the database. > >R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer >Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) >Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) >E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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