Making dnsmaq run under a different user

dunkyb · 03-16-2003, 07:46 AM

Hi .. I am running the dnsmasq caching dns forwarder on my linux router....

It defaulty runs under the user "nobody", but i want to make it run under a different user, such as "dnsmasq".

Is this just a simple case of useradd dndsmasq <yadda yadda> then groupadd dnsmasq, setting a password on dnsmasq, then changing the dnsmasq config to use user dnsmasq?

Is this 'secure' ?

Cheers

Duncan

trickykid · 03-16-2003, 08:42 AM

Well giving dnsmasq a password would be less secure than keeping the existing "nobody" user without a password. I'd say keep the existing user to run this process as it was setup to run that way.