`locate file` fails with mlocate.db: Permission denied
Bug #497515 reported by
kaedenn
This bug affects 1 person
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System76 |
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Bug Description
I'm running a Pangolin Performance panp6, shipped with Ubuntu 9.10.
As shipped, `locate file` fails with the error message:
locate: can not open `/var/lib/
ls -l /var/lib/
-rw-r----- 1 root mlocate 21274977 2009-12-15 10:02 mlocate.db
Although usrmod -ag mlocate kaedenn would fix the problem, I believe this should be fixed without end-user intervention.
Somewhere, somehow, make uid 1000 (the default user) a member of mlocate, as well as subsequent users?
Cheers,
Kaedenn
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