Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:35:08 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Speaking of Bind: installworld changed directory owner Message-ID: <16723.38380.9533.249086@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20040923212837.GA876@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <16723.14911.322906.824692@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20040923212837.GA876@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman writes: > Why do you think /etc/namedb should be owned by the bind user? Because I read - not sure where, might have been the O'Reilly book - a) the first step in securing bind is running as !root (i.e. user "bind") and b) the bind directory needs to be owned by that user. Now maybe I'm mis-remembering, or mis-read in the first place ... but I'm not pulling this out of thin air. Robert Huff
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