Re: how to change owner of named ??

[Mitar <mmitar@gmail.com>]

Hi!

Original message from: Onur <onur@unimedya.net.tr>
> I want to change the owner of the process from root to a restricted user because of the 
> security reasons stated at many sites on the internet. When I do the following, I'm getting 
> the following error message :

You have to change user for the process and not just files.

Try setting it with something like this in /etc/default/bind9:

OPTIONS="-u named"

This will tell named that it should change process user to named.


Mitar