named running as root

Gerald Waugh gerald at waugh.com
Sun Feb 4 17:42:26 UTC 2001


"Daniel Wittenberg" <daniel-wittenberg at uiowa.edu> wrote in message
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>
> I create a bind user and group with no privs, and then do ndc start -u bind
> -g bind.  If you want to be even more cautious look at running it chroot,
> but that can be tricky on some systems.
>
Dan,
Won't I have to change ownership of all my current db files,
log files, and ??? files  to the bind user and group?
named has to be able to write files.
Gerald




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