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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:06:57 -0800
From:      "Peter Brezny" <peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
To:        <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   named in a sand box.
Message-ID:  <002d01c066f4$1ba7a980$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>

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I have a nomenclature ignorance when it comes to the term sandbox.

When someone says, "named runs in a sandbox on my machine."

Do they mean

a) named runs under an unpriviliged user
or
b) named runs in a chrooted environment
or
c) both

?

In the /etc/namedb/named.conf it says that freebsd runs bind in a sandbox
and refers to the named flags in rc.conf, and when you look at those flags
in /etc/defults/named.conf all you see is the -u and -g options for the
flags, NOT the -t option for running in a chrooted environemnt.

This led me to believe that 'sandbox' means unpriviliged user.  But when i
posed a related question on -questions, someone told me that sandbox =
chrooted environment.

I also want to know, if you are running named under an unpriviliged user, is
it worth the extra trouble to run it chrooted?

Thanks for your help.

Peter Brezny
SysAdmin Services Inc.



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