On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Kai Schaetzl <mailli...@conactive.com> wrote:
> Kai Schaetzl wrote on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:00:48 +0100:
>
>> I wonder now if the owner of
>> that directory should actually be named?
>
> Hm, after looking on other machines that have named installed but not in
> use it's excactly the same there. So, if named wants write permission
> there, but the rpm always removes that permission - isn't the rpm wrong
> then? Should I report this as a bug?
>
> Kai

I don't think you'd want a compromised named to be able to make
changes to your authoritative DNS records, which is what could happen
if you have permissions set that way.
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