No restrictions on ndc in 8.2.2-P5

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue Sep 12 00:14:24 UTC 2000


	Perhaps you should be asking Sun why Solaris does not honour
	file permissions on unix domain sockets.

	Also you should at least read src/README where the problem is
	documented as is the solution.

	Mark

> I'm running bind 8.2.2-P5 on a number of Solaris machines, and was
> surprised to discover that an ordinary user could control the server
> with ndc.  Permissions on the socket look fine:
> 
> srw-------   1 root     root           0 Jul 16 09:46 /var/run/ndc
> 
> The man pages indicates that the `controls' statement could be used
> to set permissions on the socket, but I don't see how this would help.
> 
> What's wrong?  What are the default settings?
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
> 
> 
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