Re: [TCLUG:14407] secure text editor

[Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com>]

Sendmail is picky...it's like a small child, you have to give it special
treatment or it cries and craps it's drawers.

Bind shouldn't care.  I have zone files that are owned by others
(everyone has read though).  Bind opens the zone files RO, so I don't
think there's a reason for it to have anything besides read.

Here I would set it up on a test machine running bind before doing it on
our primary NS...but even if I did it on our primary nameserver, I could
change the perms back pretty quick.  Reloading named can take awhile
though.

Dan Debertin wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Scott wrote:
> 
> >      Couldn't this problem be solved by adding a new group
> > (ie. sudokids), making those unlucky few who have to deal with
> > them a member of said group, then chown the files as necessary?
> 
> Yeah, that's what I'm looking into right now. Thing is, I'm unsure if BIND
> is picky about perms/ownerships on its zone files. If I start playing
> around with perms, and named starts dying & complaining about bad perms,
> then obviously we have a problem :). We've had similar a problem with
> sendmail here, so that is why I am cautious.
> 
> ~Dan D.
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