I have this problem with locate but not with ping or crontab.
I don't want to set set the s bit because locate is supposed to only show users
the location of files they have permission to see.
The problem on my system seems to be that /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db is
unreadable by others. If I chmod o+r then it works.
However after running updatedb as root the permissions are reset back to
-rw-r-----
-rw-r----- 1 root mlocate 9204983 2008-11-20 20:15 /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db
I was wondering if there may be a reason for
/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db to be unreadable by others because although
it has a lot of binary bits (I presume that's what the highlighted "^@"
are) there is also a lot of human readable text that could potentially
be a security risk.
Does anyone know what this file's permissions are supposed to be? Say on
an install where it has always worked?
** Also affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Unable to use 'locate' to locate files mlocate.db permission denied
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281471
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