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Re: [ksrt@DEC.NET: KSR[T] Advisory #3: updatedb / crontabs]

Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@wi.leidenuniv.nl> writes:

> Previously Kevin Dalley wrote:
> > While it is easy under Redhat to force an arbitrary file to be copied
> > to the database, since Redhat's mv is done by root, I don't think that
> > is a security risk.
> 
> It is, since it makes it possible to hide files by moving in a modified
> version of the database.

locate would become inaccurate, but locate should not be used for
finding dangerous files anyway.  updatedb, as Debian and most other
Linuxes run it, only looks at files visible to nobody.

-- 
Kevin Dalley
kevin@aimnet.com


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