From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 17 12:53: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23F337B4E5 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:52:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16640; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:52:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:52:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: David Drum Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/22038: Default location of named.pid file assumes named is running as root In-Reply-To: <20001017081857.C46425@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, David Drum wrote: > I am trying to look at this from the perspective of someone who is > completely new to FreeBSD and wants to run named as a non-privileged user. This isn't a freebsd issue, it's a BIND issue. People who don't have a sufficient amount of knowledge about how BIND works to run it successfully as an unpriviliged user won't be helped by your suggestion. It will just be some other aspect of BIND configuration that trips them up. I appreciate your suggestion in terms of trying to lower the common denominator, but seriously, BIND isn't an LCD type of operation. I see way too many screwed up BIND configurations as it is, I would hate to see us contributing to that problem. There are plenty of options in rc.conf already that aren't suitable for novice users, this one falls squarely into that category. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message