Comment 6 for bug 281471

Jordan,

I had the same problem. After a Jaunty install, I found that /usr/bin/mlocate belonged to the ssl-cert group, clearly incorrect!

Reading the man page for locate, I found that locate (which is symlinked to mlocate by default) must run as a set-gid mlocate (which means the process automatically belongs to the mlocate group on startup).

Ian Abbott's solution is therefore the "correct" one. Yours works, but users are not supposed to belong to this group. This might create security exposures on multi-user systems.