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Why should anyone need to have admin privileges to find a file?

• fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
  Because updatedb needs to look at your system's private parts. Try find /. | grep [string] which will look everywhere for [string]
• adrusi 11y ago
  From the updatedb manpage: updatedb is usually run daily by cron(8) to update the default database. Also: To create a private mlocate database as an user other than root, run updatedb -l 0 -o db_file -U source_directory Note that all users that can read db_file can get the complete list of files in the subtree of source_directory.