RE: [cobalt-users] NAMED UPDATE !!!

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Security: Running Bind as Named Update 1.0.1

HTTP RaQ4-All-Security-1.0.1-10749.pkg Posted: November 13, 2001
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This patch addresses an issue with the way named is run on Sun Cobalt Server
Appliances. Currently, named is run with root permissions, this patch adds a
user named 'named', and installs new initscripts to startup named with the
proper arguments to run as the user named.

Reboot Required: Yes

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So if you fixed this problem LAST February 24 when Jeff Biliki originally
posted
this problem (see below) do you still have to apply this patch?

Is it possible that it actually took Sun 9 months to fix this???

Tony

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Subject: [cobalt-users] Bind running as named
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I noticed that user and group named was added to the system with the
lastest bind version.  I also noticed that /etc/rc.d/init.d/named had not
changed, to support this change.   So I changed line 37 from:
daemon named
to:
daemon named -u named -g named

Then restarted named, and the process does look correct:
named    32234  0.0  0.6  2580 1696 ?        S    13:01   0:00 named -u
named -g named

However, I did load the new bind using rpm instead of the pkg.
So if you are updating by hand this is pretty important changed to make.

Does the package make this change also?

Jeff-
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