Kurt Seifried wrote: > Ack ergh sputter (brain burp, my bad!). Yes, unless the group write bit is > set it is not an issue (and that shouldn't happen). Just checked and none of > the files group slocate owns on Red Hat 7.2 are writeable, so that's good, > but I can't speak for other distros, so you should check: "find / -group > slocate -perm +0020", note that any symlinks owned by group slocate will > show up. Considering the number of errors vendors make on file permissions > it is certainly possible someone has a slocate binary writeable by group > slocate. > I attempted this on a Mandrake 8.0 machine I have, I only found the slocate and locate binaries with group owned permissions. Perhaps someone can check another distro? -- Larry C$
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