Re: Locate revealing contents of root:wheel 700 directories
From: Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org)
Date: 04/22/02
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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:38:05 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
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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