Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:30:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: David Drum <david@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/22038: Default location of named.pid file assumes named is running as root Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010191230001.35970-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20001018223325.A83999@elvis.mu.org>
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David Drum wrote:
> Quoth Doug Barton:
>
> > 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 suppose it can be argued that someone who is essentially ignorant about
> BIND, at least enough not to know about the side effects on the PID file
> of running "-u bind", will not be running "ndc reload" either.
Years of experience on the bind-users list tells me that this
assumption is invalid.
Doug
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