Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 19:16:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: locate Message-ID: <199604011716.TAA06045@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604010815.KAA21390@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from "Thomas Gellekum" at Apr 1, 96 10:15:10 am
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As Thomas Gellekum wrote: > 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, please. If the owner doesn't want to expose his files to the > world, locate should respect this. That's out of question. However, locate could collect the information about all files, but verify the permissions at runtime. (This will make the database larger however.) As i've explained before, this would require locate to run setuid, and the databases to be mode 0600. -- 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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