From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 5 18:28: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F4B37B405 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 18:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-38lc2j1.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.10.97] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16N32P-0006KK-00; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 18:27:55 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g05M8lh09120; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:08:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:08:46 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Haikal Saadh Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Chrooted bind out of the box Message-ID: <20020105140846.D204@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <000001c195b1$db087880$41c801ca@warhawk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000001c195b1$db087880$41c801ca@warhawk>; from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:26:00AM +0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:26:00AM +0500, Haikal Saadh wrote: > Is there a reason why bind is run as root by default and not bind.bind? > And not chrooted? > > If I'm not mistaken almost everyone does this anyway, right? IIRC, the last time it was discussed, it was felt changing this in the middle of -STABLE would be too disruptive. Many working BIND installations would break when people updated. Changing it in -CURRENT, however, is a different matter. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message