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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:24:44 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
Cc:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why not sandbox BIND? 
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19991112102309.045abf00@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911120922190.85007-100000@jade.chc-chimes.c om>
References:  <4.2.0.58.19991111220759.044f46d0@localhost>

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Our production systems are running an older version of FreeBSD (we
always stay a bit behind the leading edge), so they do not have
that user.

--Brett

At 09:22 AM 11/12/1999 -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Brett Glass wrote:
>
> > I assume you mean rc.conf, not named.conf.
> > 
> > In any case, maybe there should be a "sandbox BIND" flag in rc.conf
> > that selects a sandboxed configuration and is on by default.
> > Also, it'd be nice to have the user "named" already in /etc/passwd
> > and ready to go.
>
>bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
>
>You mean like that in src/etc/master.passwd?
>
>-- 
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