Can someone please elaborate on what the consequences maybe to have these settings in place? 2.6 Tightening Permissions First of all, feel free to restrict access to the whole /chroot directory to the root user. Of course, not everybody may want to do this, especially if you have other software installed in that tree that doesn't appreciate it. # chown root /chroot # chmod 700 /chroot You can also safely restrict access to /chroot/named to the named user. # chown named:named /chroot/named # chmod 700 /chroot/named For even more tightening, on Linux systems we can make a few of the files and directories immutable, using the chattr tool on ext2 filesystems. # cd /chroot/named # chattr +i etc etc/localtime var I guess my questions is why would I restrict access to named...if this is what resides in chroot..? Dave A project is a problem scheduled for a solution. J.M. Juran : "Cuanta estupidez en tan poco cerebro!"