Bilal Muddassir forced the electrons to say:
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/slocate
> -rwx-r-s-r-x 1 root slocate 15032 Apr 19 1999 /usr/bin/slocate
>
> What is the group wise +s?
Also take a look at:
$ ls -al /var/lib/slocate/
total 872
drwxr-x--- 2 root slocate 4096 Apr 17 04:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Mar 11 15:15 ..
-rw-r----- 1 root slocate 878950 Apr 17 04:05 slocate.db
So, since others have no read permission to either the directory or to the
database, slocate runs with gid set to the group of the database, so that
normal users can take advantage of the database.
This is a security feature introduced in recent versions of locate (hence the
name slocate - secure locate).
Binand
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