On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:38:16AM +1200, Del wrote:
> Peter McCarthy wrote:
> > so the obvious thing is I have to reinstall (RH 6.2) but is their any way I
> > can figure out how they are getting in and stop them in the short term ?
>
> You are a naughty boy.
>
> The latest (and I think earlier) RH 6.2 version of bind does not run as
> root. If you don't run bind as root then they can't get root on your
> machine via bind.
sounds like a good idea, why doesn't debian?
my bind (debian 2.2.r2) runs as root by default.
Dave.
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