named -u bind -g bind

[Yiorgos Adamopoulos]

On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 02:06:54PM -0400, RG wrote:
> so what kind of privies does this non root user need to actually run named
> to bind port 53 and what not.

Simple:

Assuming that you have a group ``bind'' and a (locked) user ``bind'' as root
you start named:

# /usr/local/etc/named -u bing -g bind -c /etc/named.conf

If your named keeps secondaries of some domains in some directory, this should
be writable by the user bind.

More by doing man named


--adamo
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