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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:35:08 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Speaking of Bind: installworld changed directory owner
Message-ID:  <16723.38380.9533.249086@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040923212837.GA876@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <16723.14911.322906.824692@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20040923212837.GA876@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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Matthew Seaman writes:

>  Why do you think /etc/namedb should be owned by the bind user?

	Because I read - not sure where, might have been the O'Reilly
book - a) the first step in securing bind is running as !root
(i.e. user "bind") and b) the bind directory needs to be owned by
that user.
	Now maybe I'm mis-remembering, or mis-read in the first place
... but I'm not pulling this out of thin air.


			Robert Huff




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