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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:13:36 +1100 (EST)
From:      Sean Winn <sean@gothic.net.au>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why not sandbox BIND? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911121711050.82150-100000@vampire.gothic.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991111220759.044f46d0@localhost>

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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Brett Glass wrote:

> I assume you mean rc.conf, not named.conf.
> 
> In any case, maybe there should be a "sandbox BIND" flag in rc.conf
> that selects a sandboxed configuration and is on by default.
> Also, it'd be nice to have the user "named" already in /etc/passwd
> and ready to go.

As in the existing...

bind:*:53:53:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin

In /etc/defaults/rc.conf there's an example named_flags line...

#named_flags="-u bind -g bind"  # Flags for named

-- 
Sean Winn
email: sean@gothic.net.au
All opinions valued at $0.02, and not subject to inflation.



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