bind + setuid()

[Jan.Jirousek at chase.com]

Bingo ! Stupid I didn't think of it earlier.

Honza




In article <8525679F.006FE843.00 at 3cmc04smtp.chase.com>,
 <Jan.Jirousek at chase.com> wrote:
>I have a reverse problem. I'd like to run bind as root, but allow certain
(unix)
>group of users to start/stop it. This is BIND8.2 on Solaris 2.6. I tried to set
>/usr/local/sbin/ndc suid root and restrict access/execute permissions to my
>group, but it didn't work - ndc complained it can't create /etc/ndc and it
>started named process running under my regular user uid.

Get sudo.

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