On a new Xubuntu 16.04 installation, I saw the following permissions: ls -l /usr/bin/mlocate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root saned 39520 Nov 18 2014 /usr/bin/mlocate
1) mlocate didn't have setuid (which might be ok for some use cases) 2) the group is saned which is completely wrong. I assume the group is assigned by gid instead of name. saned has gid=127 on my system -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281471 Title: Unable to use 'locate' to locate files mlocate.db permission denied To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+bug/281471/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
