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Re: To the bind maintainer



* Jason Gunthorpe said:
> 
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> > >I think it is called linux capabilities. If someone wants to make bind
> > >more secure arrange for it to run as nobody with bind-to-any-port
> > >capability (or something like that)
> > 
> > this requires filesystem support to store the capabilities, which is 
> > not done yet.
> 
> No it doesn't. You just run it as root and have it make the proper
> capabilities syscalls before switching to not-root. You need the FS patch
> if you want to do the above *without* changing bind's source.
It's not "just". You'd have to modify bind quite a lot and not in only the
startup code. 
 
marek

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