[WBEL-users] re: DNS Slave issue

[Fran Boon]

>Getting kinda odd.  Here is how /var/named gets created here:
>drwxr-x---    3 root     named        4096 Dec 11 22:47 named
>And here is what the .spec requests:
>%attr(750,root,named) %dir /var/named
>So any provable problem with that needs to get fed upstream to RH since
>they very intentionally set things up owned by root:named, yet they do
>create a user named and run as it.  Go figure, because it looks pretty 
>loony to me.

This is intentional.
See the Fedora release notes:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/

"The BIND nameserver has had its security tightened. The /var/named/ directory is no longer owned by "named", but rather by "root". Slave zone files should now be stored in the new /var/named/slaves/ directory, which is owned by "named"."

Fran.