Actually, the above statement regarding intended functionality is
incorrect. This is indeed a bug.
>From man slocate:
DESCRIPTION
Secure Locate provides a secure way to index and quickly search for
all files on your system regardless of ownership. It uses incremental encoding
just like GNU locate to compress its
database to make searching faster, but it will also check file
permissions and ownership before displaying matched entries so that users will
not see files they do not have access to. Note
that permissions and ownership are not stored in the database.
Please note that it explicitly says, non root users should be able to
use this tool, they merely should not get shown files they do not have
access to.
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locate command broken. Bad perms on /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78739
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