Run as a user, not as root.

[Danny Mayer]

At 08:23 PM 5/19/02, D. Stussy wrote:

>I recently upgraded from bind version 8 to 9.2.1rc2.  I noted the "run as a
>user" feature, but only saw that it could be invoked from the command line.

9.2.1 has been released so you should upgrade.  rc2 is a release candidate
for 9.2.1.

>Is there a reason why this feature doesn't have a matching option in the
>"named.conf" file?  I looked through the source but didn't see any good reason
>why it can't be added to the configuration file code.

Yes, you don't always want to run this way and in any case it needs
to know at startup time under what account it is to run rather than
waiting to read the named.conf file.

Danny