Re: slocate bug.

["Larry W. Cashdollar" <lwc () vapid dhs org>]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Kurt Seifried wrote:

> [seifried@vomit seifried]$ ls -l /usr/bin/slocate
> -rwxr-sr-x    1 root     slocate     25020 Jun 25  2001 /usr/bin/slocate
>
> I am group slocate. I can write to slocate binary. root runs slocate (well,
> locate, which is a link to slocate). I think that might be a problem.

The group write permission bit isn't set on the slocate binary so you cant
write to it, and if your using a binary to write over itself aren't you
going to get a text file busy error?

-- larry