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authorCedric Berger <cedric@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-03-08 11:04:14 +0000
committerCedric Berger <cedric@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-03-08 11:04:14 +0000
commit6c5adce46061b562acf5d0452275016777621226 (patch)
tree71c27bcaa78b072ad6aad35c9224a99d0e9d75d5 /usr.sbin/bind/bin/named
parentdcbbd2a1be0d28baf4106f64802d278c5975f48e (diff)
Talk about chroot defaults, remove Linux note.
ok jakob@ jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/bind/bin/named')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/bind/bin/named/named.816
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/bind/bin/named/named.8 b/usr.sbin/bind/bin/named/named.8
index 1e966330d0b..3c648b271f4 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/bind/bin/named/named.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/bind/bin/named/named.8
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ part of the BIND 9 distribution from ISC. For more
information on the DNS, see RFCs 1033, 1034, and 1035.
.PP
When invoked without arguments, \fBnamed\fR will
+\fBchroot()\fR to \fI/var/named\fR,
read the default configuration file
\fI/var/named/etc/named.conf\fR, read any initial
data, and listen for queries.
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ and may be removed or changed in a future release.
\fBchroot()\fR to \fIdirectory\fR after
processing the command line arguments, but before
reading the configuration file.
+By default, \fBnamed\fR \fBchroot()\fR's to \fI/var/named\fR.
.sp
.RS
.B "Warning:"
@@ -97,19 +99,7 @@ escape a chroot jail.
\fBsetuid()\fR to \fIuser\fR after completing
privileged operations, such as creating sockets that
listen on privileged ports.
-.sp
-.RS
-.B "Note:"
-On Linux, \fBnamed\fR uses the kernel's
-capability mechanism to drop all root privileges
-except the ability to \fBbind()\fR to a
-privileged port and set process resource limits.
-Unfortunately, this means that the \fB-u\fR
-option only works when \fBnamed\fR is run
-on kernel 2.2.18 or later, or kernel 2.3.99-pre3 or
-later, since previous kernels did not allow privileges
-to be retained after \fBsetuid()\fR.
-.RE
+By default, \fBnamed\fR will run as user \fInamed\fR.
.sp
.TP
\fB-v\fR