[Linux-ha-dev] Bind/stat Auth Patch

Alan Robertson alanr at unix.sh
Tue Oct 5 10:24:40 MDT 2004


Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> 
> On Oct 5, 2004, at 6:10 PM, Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>>
>>> I'll patch the documentation soonish - but back to the main patch... 
>>> are there any objections or should I just apply?
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm of the opinion that you should enable this method if the calls to 
>> make it work are present, and there is no better way available.
>>
>> I don't think it should be by OS, except maybe by exclusion (if you 
>> know a particular OS allows chown by non-root).
> 
> 
> My original email mentioned leaving it to Matt and co. to enable for 
> Solaris but if you'd prefer it was basically the fallback default i can 
> do that too.
> 
> Nothing else?

I was just thinking we could do the non-root chown test as part of autoconf...


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