* Mitar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040901 17:29]: > > I want to change the owner of the process from root to a restricted user because > > of the > > security reasons stated at many sites on the internet. When I do the following, > > I'm getting > > the following error message : > You have to change user for the process and not just files. > > Try setting it with something like this in /etc/default/bind9: > OPTIONS="-u named" > This will tell named that it should change process user to named.
Edit /etc/init.d/bind9 and change the line starting OPTS. I'm not sure, if Debian creates a user "named" when installing bind. That should be documented in the security howto at <http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch-sec-services.en.html#s-sec-bind>. Yours sincerely, Alexander
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