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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:17:05 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        krad <kraduk@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
Subject:   Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.
Message-ID:  <4C19F621.3040202@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 17/06/2010 09:37:03, krad wrote:
> so the logical extension to this is by changing the ownership of the
> directory to bind, you are making the configuration directory writeable, and
> therefore you are actually lowering security.

Correct.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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