Re: slocate bug.

From: Larry W. Cashdollar (lwcat_private)
Date: Sat Feb 16 2002 - 15:31:42 PST

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    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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