9.1.1 as root vs 8.2.3-REL as named
James A Griffin
agriffin at cpcug.org
Wed Apr 4 13:24:40 UTC 2001
You can find information if the FAQ and the migration documents that are
part of the tar.gz package.
Do the following:
make clean
./configure --disable-threads [--prefix=/usr] <- if you don't want to
install in /usr/local
make
make test
make install
and start named (/etc/rc.d/init/named start)
Regards,
Jim
Giorgio Signorini wrote:
>
> On my Linux (2.2.14-5.0), BIND version 9.1.1 won't run as an
> unprivileged user:
>
> # named -u named
> /usr/sbin/named: -u not supported on Linux kernels older than
> 2.3.99-pre3 when using threads
>
> My other option is 8.2.3-REL. In your opinion, which one is best from
> a security point of view, 9.1.1 run as root, or 8.2.3-REL run as user
> "named"?
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> -- GFS
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dr. Giorgio F. SIGNORINI
> Dipartimento di Chimica tel: +39-055-2757592
> Universita` di Firenze fax: +39-055-2476961
> via Gino Capponi 9 signo at chim.unifi.it
> I-50121 Firenze (Italy) http://www.chim.unifi.it/~signo
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