Why I am getting permission denied errors after executing locate command as regular users ?

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Issue

  • Why I am getting permission denied errors after executing locate command as regular users ?
  • The exact error message is:
$ locate file
locate: can not stat /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db 

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • mlocate

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