[bind10-dev] Possible suid root on b10-sockcreator

Jeremy C. Reed jreed at isc.org
Fri Dec 16 21:06:52 UTC 2011


We need to consider different users/groups for different run-time 
components. A good example is stats-httpd (running on same system) 
should not have privileges to modify zone data stores or configuration 
JSON file.

As an idea bind10 starts as root, and its configurations knows the 
user:group to run each component as. But if bind10 drops its own 
privileges then it can't restart them as desired.

Postfix master is a common example -- it runs as root. Look at DJB's 
qmail, uscpi-tcp, and daemontools svscan for other proven examples.



More information about the bind10-dev mailing list