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Re: unowned processes and who controls them (was: Re: passwd entry for uid -1



Oystein Viggen <oysteivi@tihlde.org> writes:

> Also, without some proper filesystem support for this, there will be
> problems for all services actually wanting to store something on disk.
> I thought for a moment about how you could run BIND uid-less, until I
> came to think of the problems you would have the _second_ time you
> wanted to do a zone xfer.

I claim ignorance in how bind works. But I don't see a problem with it
opening zone cache files r/w, and keeping them open until termination.

Opening is done while still owning privileges (maybe root), so on the
next start it is still possible to r/w.

-- 
Robbe

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