reopen 500806
retitle 500806 nsdc should drop privileges when invoked as root
severity 500806 wishlist
thanks

also sprach Pierre Habouzit <[email protected]> [2009.01.16.0222 +1300]:
> Nope, you're the one being wrong, you should not run nsdc as root,
> unless you're starting nsd.
> 
> You should do : su -c nsd nsdc rebuild
[...]

You knew you had it coming:

Since I do not have to su for running postfix flush or reload, and
I do not have to su to run rndc and I do not have to su to run
apache2ctl, it only seems reasonable that nsdc should handle this
itself: please make it drop privileges when invoked as root.

Thanks,

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