[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI BIND server

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:56:24AM -0400, Mark Creamer wrote:
> Thanks Dave and Gary for the input. Once I understood where the system
> messages were going I was able to figure out that I had an issue with
> the permissions on the named.conf file I was using. I changed two
> things:
> 
> 1. chown root:sys /etc/named.conf  (It was root:root)
> 2. chmod 755 /etc/named.conf

    $ ll /etc/named.conf
    -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        1615 Aug 12  2011 /etc/named.conf

> Now it starts properly. Can anyone confirm for me that the permissions
> are correct though? I just want to make sure it's secure and I think
> 755 might not be restrictive enough??

My practice is to make all system files world readable, unless there
is a reason not to do so.  I assume there's nothing confidential in
that file.

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-Gary Mills-		-refurb-		-Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-