Bind User - Group ?

Matthew Thompson matthewt at fairplay.co.uk
Mon Apr 3 12:52:49 UTC 2000


I thought that this was generally frowned upon as most Unixes (Unixi?)
require a daemon to run as root in order to have access to ports below 1024.

Or am I getting confused?

M at t :o)

> how can i let bind run an non root ? i have greated user and 
> group named
> and now i start named with the -u -g comand. all the files 
> named is using
> are
> owned by root. is this ok or should i change it ?



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