Matt, On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:57, Matt Gibson wrote:
On Monday 14 Feb 2005 20:31 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Not so. The issue is security: not allowing any user to know the names and locations of every file.
Indeed. If this worries you, make sure you run the updatedb as "nobody". This can be set in /etc/sysconfig/locate with the normal SuSE package (and may be the default, I can't remember.) It's the RUN_UPDATEDB_AS variable. You can also set up various options for directories not to look into, etc., in that file.
This can be edited nicely with the "Editor for /etc/sysconfig files" in YaST, of course.
I believe it defaults to "nobody". At least it did for my 9.1 installation performed from scratch (not as an update to an existing installation).
M
Randall Schulz