On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, hypnos wrote: hypnos >how does this work? because only superuser can hypnos >bind to privileged ports (<1024) right? so does hypnos >named start as root, then switch to the user hypnos >specified? hypnos > hypnos >i may look into changing my named to run as hypnos >other than root also.
yep thats how it works, i also use -g named to change group to named and also use -t /var/named to chroot() it. if you use -u or -g make sure permissions are always good though, or make sure to do all your DNS maintainence as the user named. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:10am up 134 days, 14:05, 3 users, load average: 1.86, 1.66, 1.57
