Locate revealing contents of root:wheel 700 directories

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:27:14PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> Hi, I noticed that in freeBSD 4.5, locate shows the contents of all
> folders, even in my previously root:wheel 700 directory, /mnt/var/log.

Only if you run the locate.updatedb utility as root (i.e. in a
non-default way).  locate only searches the database, it doesn't have
any extra privileges.

Kris
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