Re: bind running as root in Mandrake 7.0
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> idiots should not be running bind.
Very true. But we can't very well have an install script which asks "Are
you an idiot?" and aborts installation if the user answers "Yes" ;-)
Bottom line is idiots *will* run bind anyway (after all they are
idiots...) So better that the default mode should be (relatively) safe,
requiring active intervention (and presumably knowledge) to open the big
holes like running it as root -- which as has already been pointed out is
only likely to be desirable for a very small minority of users.
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