From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 1 00:17:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA08157 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 00:17:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA08141 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 00:16:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA06119 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:16:20 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA04987 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:16:19 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id KAA04856 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:08:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604010808.KAA04856@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: locate To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:08:42 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604010600.WAA01868@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Mike Pritchard" at Mar 31, 96 10:00:10 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mike Pritchard wrote: > > What do people think of the idea of changing locate & its database > update script to keep a list of ALL files on the system, and > not just those that can been seen by the world. No objection against this, but you have to make the databases mode 600 then, and locate must be setuid. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)