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Bug ID 6530498
Synopsis HA DNS should provide a property to allow the DNS service to be run as a non-root user
State 1-Dispatched (Default State)
Category:Subcategory suncluster:ha-dns
Keywords DNS | named | non-root | oss-bite-size | oss-request | user
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Submitter
Responsible Engineer Harish Sundaram
Reported Against
Duplicate Of
Introduced In
Commit to Fix
Fixed In
Release Fixed
Related Bugs 6736636
Submit Date 2-March-2007
Last Update Date 17-October-2008
Description
Customer request via the Sun Cluster forum:

I'd like the DNS HA Agent for Sun Cluster 3.2 to be modified so that the admin can choose to run BIND as a
non-root user ie. named. This functionality is desirable for security reasons, as it gives the admin a layer of protection in the event that BIND is compromised. As a non-root process, it won't be capable of doing
as much damage as a compromised root process could. This behaviour is similar to how Apache works, and is already available by specifying "-u <userid>" when starting BIND from the command line, or setting 'user'
and 'group' in method_credential in the SMF manifest.
Work Around
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