Re: To the bind maintainer

[Lindsay Allen <allen@cbcfreo.wa.edu.au>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Onno Ebbinge wrote:

> 
> Do you want to run named as a user other than root? (Y/N): [N]
> 
> Note the default! But when I want to run named as a user other
> than root because I'm a little nervous about security then
> I should have that possibility! (and say Y!) Instead of patching
> /etc/init.d/bind.

I'm in favour of this for the simple reason that I am not expert and do
not know exactly how to run bind as non-root.  I could try, but might well
get something wrong.  Normally Debian looks after me.

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Lindsay Allen   <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>  Perth, Western Australia
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