need more help running bind as user other than root... ?

Lars Hecking lhecking at nmrc.ucc.ie
Tue Feb 29 15:36:45 UTC 2000


Duane Cox writes:
> 
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> Bind is running under the user/group named/named, also NOT in chroot mode.

 Does this make sense at all? More likely than not this will compromise
 system security because you have to give privileges to this non-root user,
 e.g. read/write access in areas where by default only root has access.




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