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Re: Whom the BIND newest vulnerability concerns?



At 17:08 +0100 1999-11-12, Russell Coker wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Tomasz Papszun wrote:
>>Sorry for bothering debian-devel; maybe I should have asked it on
>>debian-users instead... but I think that - as this approach seems useful -
>>developers could benefit too.
>>
>>Russell, would you mind (if your free time allows it) describing possibly
>>in detailed way - how one could implement your solution, messing Debian's
>>files as little as possible. OK, I know how to add a "system" user for
>>this purpose :-) but later?
>
>I have attached my /etc/init.d/bind file and here's the configuration for
>authbind:
>
>l /etc/authbind/byport/
>total 2
>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Nov 12 17:09 .
>drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         1024 Nov  2 15:09 ..
>-rwx------    1 ldap     root            0 Nov  2 15:09 389
>-rwx------    1 named    root            0 Nov  2 15:09 53
>
>It's simple enough to do.

I'm not sure this offers any major advantage over starting named with -u named
-g named.

--- /etc/init.d/bind.~1~        Sat Oct 30 00:34:53 1999
+++ /etc/init.d/bind    Fri Nov 12 11:51:46 1999
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 case "$1" in
     start)
        echo -n "Starting domain name service: named"
-       start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/named
+       start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
+           --exec /usr/sbin/named -- -u named -g named
        echo "."
     ;;



named    20182  0.0  1.2  2192 1552 ?        S    11:44   0:00 /usr/sbin/named -u named -g named
-- 
Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
<URL:mailto:jk@espy.org>                 <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>
<URL:http://web.espy.org/>               <URL:http://www.debian.org/>


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