7 Jun
2002
7 Jun
'02
01:04
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 20:35, James Oakley wrote:
It's more likely a security issue. The less information users can get about stuff they don't need to know about (location of sensitive files), the better.
- -- James Oakley
I hadn't thought about security, and you may be right James, but I've noticed that /usr/bin/locate is set with permissions 751. Couldn't you keep it away from non-root users by setting permissions to 700? - Robert Storey