beagled / privacy

[Scott J. Henson]

Thilo Six wrote:
> hello
> 
> ich had installed edgy and after a day when cronjobs running the disk
> got loud and busy. After invastigation it was the beagle index deamon.
> 
> that got me to the question what about the file access rights that
> beagle indexes?
> 
> e.g.
> i have set my home to 700. Now when using beagle is the corresponding
> index entry from this files only visible to me, or to others on the
> system, too?


>From what I remember, the beagle index is per user.  I don't
have it installed right now, but I don't remember a cron
job.  I remember it running from my session and indexing my
files and then storing that index in my home directory,
where it would be protected by your permissions.


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Scott Henson
LCSEE Systems Staff
WVU MAE Undergraduate
Ubuntu User