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From: david@emeraldis.com (David G. Cannon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: apache ownerships
Date: 5 Jun 1996 01:49:47 GMT
Organization: Emerald Internet Services
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In article <4orc4j$lth@moon.igcom.net>, david@terra.igcom.net (David B.
Bauman) wrote:

> I am currently using the latest apache httpd runing on bsd 2.0.1.
> The server works fine, execept for the fact that when the apache server
> starts, all of the processes are owned by the user/group specified in
> /conf/httpd.conf except the main process which is owned by root.
> Are there any other modifications that are required to have *all* web
> processes for that daemon to be owned by the specified user/group?
> 
> 
> David Bauman


If Apache was started by the rc or rc.local file, all of it's processes
should be running as "root".

David G. Cannon