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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:08:42 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: locate
Message-ID:  <199604010808.KAA04856@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604010600.WAA01868@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Mike Pritchard" at Mar 31, 96 10:00:10 pm

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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. ;-)



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