[SLE] How to erase Kerry/Beagle's index?
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This is a privacy issue -- if I open a document that contains sensitive information that I do not want others to see, Beagle does index it. Or maybe I opened a file or webpage that I do not want others to know I have opened. How do I erase Beagle's index? "gg: beagle index erase" did not help much. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.53 on SUSE Linux 10.1 $ date [] CCE +2006-06-09 W23-5 UTC+0530 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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Shriramana Sharma wrote:
This is a privacy issue -- if I open a document that contains sensitive information that I do not want others to see, Beagle does index it. Or maybe I opened a file or webpage that I do not want others to know I have opened.
How do I erase Beagle's index? "gg: beagle index erase" did not help much.
Hi Shriramana, beagle can be a privacy issue, yes. At this stage (0.2.3-37 on one PC), i'm not sure if you can configure it *not* to index specific types. AFAIK, the shortest way to resolve your security issue would be to uninstall it (from yast, for instance) completely. A small note: for those who use web browsing with Firefox, they can disable it in the Firefox taskbar. So the "beagle privacy issue while surfing" is not as critical. Some might say that find-utils, locate can be a good alternative to beagle. If not wishing to delete it, this might help you: Beagle only indexes my home directory. Can I make it index other places too? Yes, Beagle includes a GUI utility capable of doing this, *beagle-settings*. You can also use the *beagle-config* command line utility (use the AddRoot option of the indexing section). http://beaglewiki.org/FAQ But did not test. You might be able to set it up to index only what you want (here the tip was to expand search capacities, not to reduce them, but you might adapt it) Cheers, PatrickM
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-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:40:33 +0530 Von: Shriramana Sharma
How do I erase Beagle's index? "gg: beagle index erase" did not help much.
What about deleting folder .beagle in your home directory? Guido -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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Guido Pinkernell wrote:
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:40:33 +0530 Von: Shriramana Sharma
How do I erase Beagle's index? "gg: beagle index erase" did not help much. What about deleting folder .beagle in your home directory?
Guido
In that case, if the index cache is there, Shriramana will lose all the other indexing he might find useful. So at this point, why not just uninstall beagle? PatrickM
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Am Freitag, 9. Juni 2006 14:14 schrieb pmoellon:
Guido Pinkernell wrote:
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:40:33 +0530 Von: Shriramana Sharma
How do I erase Beagle's index? "gg: beagle index erase" did not help much. What about deleting folder .beagle in your home directory?
Guido
In that case, if the index cache is there, Shriramana will lose all the other indexing he might find useful.
You are right. However, the original poster sounded as if he didn't want to use beagle at all.
So at this point, why not just uninstall beagle?
The index database in .beagle would stay. You need to delete the database to get rid of the database. Guido -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-06-09 at 11:40 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
This is a privacy issue -- if I open a document that contains sensitive information that I do not want others to see, Beagle does index it.
How about not having read permissions on the file for group and other? Does that help? Or not having the "x" permission on the directory holding it. Can't test it myself, sorry. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEiWMttTMYHG2NR9URAnjkAJ46yD49pnPjLYx+VyCsoHGmXLsOFACeIv1H L1LaakDr3Qzn7/xkrF2tE/M= =5g3b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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Carlos E. R.
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Guido Pinkernell
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Shriramana Sharma