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[Daniel <281471@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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Title:
  Unable to use 'locate' to locate files mlocate.db permission denied

Status in Easy Peasy:
  New
Status in mlocate package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm using Hardy on a 1000h. When I'm trying to locate a file using locate I receive
  $ locate gdm
  locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': Permission denied

  I listed /var/lib/locate and mlocate.db seems to be owned by root and group mlocate
  $ ls -al /var/lib/mlocate
  total 3204
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       4096 2008-10-11 00:33 .
  drwxr-xr-x 51 root root       4096 2008-10-06 21:01 ..
  -rw-r-----  1 root mlocate 3266135 2008-10-11 00:33 mlocate.db

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