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Subject: bin/17074: locate.updatedb fails when /root is 750
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>Number:         17074
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       locate.updatedb fails when /root is 750
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 29 06:30:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christopher T. Johnson
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 And back to 3.1
>Organization:
Paladin Software
>Environment:
Repeatable in FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Feb 1999 through FreeBSD 4.0-Current Feb 2000

>Description:
If the root's home directory is set such that "nobody" can not read it
then the locate.updatedb script will fail when run from
/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate

Test:
	su
	cd
	chmod 750 .
	echo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb | nice -5 su -fm nobody
	find .: permission denied

And the locate database is not updated.  This becomes a problem because
/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate does run from the /root and does
do the locate as nobody.


	

>How-To-Repeat:

see description

>Fix:

Add a "cd /var/tmp" or "cd /tmp" in locate.updatedb


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
 If the root's home directory is set such that "nobody" can not read it
 then the locate.updatedb script will fail when run from
 /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate


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