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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:41:24 +0100
From:      "D. Rock" <rock@cs.uni-sb.de>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kmem, tty, bind security enhancements commit.
Message-ID:  <36778044.A8FDC865@cs.uni-sb.de>
References:  <199812010551.VAA02953@apollo.backplane.com>

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Matthew Dillon schrieb:
> 
>     (2)
> 
>         Add a 'bind' user and a 'bind' group to master.passwd
> 
>         Use bind-8's -u and -g features to run named as bind:bind
>         in the default rc.conf:
> 
>             named_flags="-u bind -g bind"
> 
>         (Or find a way to figure out whether this uid/gid exists
>         and use the options or not use the options based on that,
>         which is more compatible with prior installations but adds
>         complexity that will quickly become stale.  I suggest simply
>         making it the default in the CVS tree).
> 
>         Cavet: in a multi-interface situation, with an interface
>         that is brought up later, and so forth, named will not
>         be able to automatically rebind and must be restarted.
> 
>         (Also ensure that named.conf is either group-bind-readable or
>         world readable).
Only a small glitch:
% ndc reload
now gives you everytime an
named[24812]: couldn't create pid file '/var/run/named.pid'
error message to syslog.
It isn't a big deal, because on reload the pid doesn't change. But
it's still annoying.

Daniel

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