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Re: how to change owner of named ??



* Mitar <mmitar@gmail.com> [040901 17:29]:
> > 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.

Edit /etc/init.d/bind9 and change the line starting OPTS.
I'm not sure, if Debian creates a user "named" when installing bind.

That should be documented in the security howto at
<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch-sec-services.en.html#s-sec-bind>.


Yours sincerely,
  Alexander

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