On Friday 01 October 2010 16:50:33 Jakob Schlyter wrote:
> The following patches makes establish the following default NSD
> permissions/locations:
>
> - /var/nsd/db for stuff that nsd(8) may write to (as user/group _nsd)
> - /var/nsd/nsd.db for the read-only database.
> - /var/nsd/zones default zone directory.
> - /etc/nsd.conf for the config file
>
> This still requires nsd-{patch,zonec} to be run as root, and I would
> appreciate feedback on whether we should run these two (which are the only
> programs that needs to write to nsd.db & the zone files) as another user
> (e.g. _nsdmaint).
>
> We could also consider splitting /var/nsd/zones into one directory for
> master zone (read-only) and slave zones (writable by nsd-patch).
>
> jakob
The release is quickly approaching. The proposed diff still has issues. If
this stuff is not resolved and commited before the release nsd in base
should be disabled. Shipping incomplete and broken stuff isn't very useful
for users.
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