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Re: [cobalt-security] profile of a bind worm
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] profile of a bind worm
- From: "Kevin D" <kdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:46:44 -0400
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
From: "Jabie Gray" <apollo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> My named is running as root too.
Bad idea.
> I see two instances of the daemon function in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/named
> script. One is for start, the other is for hard restart.
> Do I need to change both of them to use -u & -g options?
Yes you should.
> Do I need to create the user and group of named?
Maybe. Check your /etc/passwd file. My guess is probably not.
Kevin