starting bind as a non-root user with ndc

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 04:12:20PM +0000, nalin at redhat.com wrote:
> 
> > Try "ndc restart -- -u named -g named".
> 
> What does the "--" do?

	It stops getopt(3) processing anymore arguments.
	The -- is in the wrong position in this example.

	Mark

> And btw, this will fail utterly, if the permissions are flawed...
> 
> 
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