From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 8 9:28:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from aic-gw.mlink.net (aic-gw.mlink.net [209.104.118.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84FE814D43 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 09:28:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@AIC-GW.MLINK.NET) Received: (qmail 4744 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Jun 1999 16:28:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Jun 1999 16:28:30 -0000 Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 12:28:30 -0400 (EDT) From: matt To: Eivind Eklund Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slocate v1.6 In-Reply-To: <19990608123149.A7512@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: [...] : [1] I at least seem to remember it being setuid - it should really be : enough to make it setgid, and add a group for it... That is exactly what it does on install. root[aic-gw]:/usr/bin# ls -l slocate -rwxr-sr-x 1 root slocate 41436 Jun 5 09:32 slocate* root[aic-gw]:/etc# grep slocate group slocate:*:30002: And to clairfy, I was never trying to say how slocate is all better then the default locate or whatnot, so I'm not trying to have a war or a 'my dick is bigger then yours' type arguement... =) : Eivind. Matt -- DISCLAIMER: Anyone sending me unsolicited commercial electronic mail will be charged a $100 fee for time spent reading it. Do NOT send this type of electronic mail to me. In reading this, you automatically agree to be subjected to these terms: US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), a computer/modem/printer meets the definition of a telephone fax machine. By Sec.227(b)(1)(C), it is unlawful to send any unsolicited advertisement to such equipment. By Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a violation of the aforementioned Section is punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss, or $500, whichever is greater, for each violation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message