ndc restart... not honoring original user/group

[Barry Margolin]

In article <93i1fi$74t at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Jeffrey C. Albro <jeff at velvet.antistatic.com> wrote:
>
>
>I've noted in the documentation and proved by testing that ndc restart
>does not honor the orginal user/group of the running named...
>
>If you start named (8.2.2p7) with 
>
>named -u named -g named
>
>and type
>
>ndc restart
>
>it will run as root/root.
>
>Is there plans to fix this in 9?  

Instead of "ndc restart", use "ndc exec".  This sends a message to the
named process (via the /etc/ndc socket) telling it to exec() itself.  Since
this restarts it in the same process, the uid and gid don't change.

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