Zone File Permission Question

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at tux.org
Thu Oct 1 01:58:16 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 01:12:17PM -0400, Jim Williams wrote:
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> I have what seems to be a very basic question that I have been unable to find an answer for. What determines the settings of the file permissions (and how can I change those default settings) on zone files created during a zone transfer, BIND or the OS (Solaris)? 
>  
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Try adding 'umask 027' - or whatever you desire - to the shell command
file that kicks off 'named', which is often /etc/init.d/named or
/etc/init.d/bind, depending on who installed it.  ;-)  Put the call to
'umask' immediately before the execution of 'named'.


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