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/etc/locate.rc default PRUNEPATHS

From: Kurt V. Hindenburg <khindenburg(at)cherrynebula.net>
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 12:34:10 EST


Wouldn't it be 'more secure' if /root was added to PRUNEPATHS in /etc/locate.rc? I realize that if the /etc/weekly is ran, then /root is not scanned due to /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb being ran as nobody.

My thinking is that root/priv user might run locate.updatedb and forget to include the command line options to skip /root. Having /root in PRUNEPATHS as the default would nullify this.  

 Kurt

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Received on Mon Feb 17 12:31:36 2003

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