From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 10:17:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 926571065672 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:17:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F36F08FC20 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:17:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5HAH5Lk034009 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:17:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C19F621.3040202@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:17:05 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: krad References: <201006170232.o5H2Welb014148@dc.cis.okstate.edu> <19481.36703.87734.484856@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4C1994BE.2030004@boosten.org> <4C19D30E.2050409@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Peter Boosten Subject: Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:17:12 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwZ9iEACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxlOQCfZXV2D+ps0uQITQ6b05sXsmjC r3IAnjQyzVtfBhJ0XwxO8O+Gsct8wb9j =Kj7A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----