From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 17 14:50:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 881F737B4FE for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 17 Oct 2000 22:50:28 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:50:27 +0100 From: David Malone To: David Drum Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/22038: Default location of named.pid file assumes named is running as root Message-ID: <20001017225027.A88362@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200010170900.CAA96493@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001017081857.C46425@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001017081857.C46425@elvis.mu.org>; from david@mu.org on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:18:58AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:18:58AM -0500, 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. > The "-u bind -g bind" options are given in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. I guess it would be nice to make these work in a simpler manner, but I think the trouble for exsting users would probably outweigh the number of novice users trying these options. Maybe the best thing to do is to expand on the comment in rc.conf and add a commented out example line in out default named.conf? David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message