On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, James Youngman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Ariel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't want to install locate because that defeats the entire purpose of
having mlocate (or slocate) - not allowing uses to find files they can't
see.
No, GNU locate has that feature, and ~always has. The index is built
as "nobody" for precisely this reason. In fact GNU locate also
supports slocate-format databases too, should you wish your index to
be built as root rather than the default, nobody.
Then why is slocate [still] used? And why isn't locate configured that way
as the default?
Or is it that locate does not check the permissions when displaying names?
I couldn't find any mention of it doing that in the docs.
-Ariel
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