BIND 9.16.1: unable to set effective uid to 0: Operation not permitted

[Ismael Suarez]

Yup, I got this error on 9.14.7 running on CentOS 7.7



> On Mar 30, 2020, at 1:31 PM, Mike Lewinski <mlewinski at massivenetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> This error (unable to set effective uid to 0: Operation not permitted) was reported a year ago where it affected BIND 9.14.0: 
> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/htdig/bind-users/2019-March/101582.html
> 
> I can confirm this error still exists in the most recent isc/bind copr version 9.16.1 installed on CentOS 7 using the reference caching-only resolver configuration from the Bv9ARM.
> 
> The process is running with this command line: /opt/isc/isc-bind/root/usr/sbin/named -u named
> 
> It is started from the unmodified copr installation of /usr/lib/systemd/system/isc-bind-named.service
> 
> [Unit]
> After=network.target
> Wants=nss-lookup.target
> Before=nss-lookup.target
> 
> [Service]
> Type=forking
> EnvironmentFile=-/etc/opt/isc/isc-bind/sysconfig/named
> PIDFile=/var/opt/isc/isc-bind/run/named/named.pid
> ExecStart=/opt/isc/isc-bind/root/usr/sbin/named -u named $OPTIONS
> ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
> ExecStop=/bin/kill -TERM $MAINPID
> PrivateTmp=true
> 
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
> 
> I've been trying to track down a (probably) unrelated dnssec issue resolving theoptimalfinancialgroup.com and this error has distracted me from my investigation.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
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