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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!News.LiveNet.Net!jsloan From: jsloan@LiveNet.Net (Jim Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: apache ownerships Date: Thu, 06 Jun 96 05:25:09 GMT Organization: LiveNet, Inc. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4p5q3l$1ok_002@news.livenet.net> References: <4orc4j$lth@moon.igcom.net> <david-0406962128410001@ppp27.emeraldis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: yellow.livenet.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <david-0406962128410001@ppp27.emeraldis.com>, david@emeraldis.com (David G. Cannon) wrote: >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 Nope, only the master process will be running as root as apache reads the httpd.conf file and runs it's children as that user/group specified. The main process does no servicing of web pages, it's only function is to control the children, ie, # of startup servers, minimum spare servers, maximum spare servers, etc. if you want even the master process to run as a specified user/group, then you would need to su user `httpd` ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Sloan jsloan@livenet.net Vice President LiveNet, Inc. 413 Davis St. Suite 106 Full Service Internet Provider Virginia Beach VA 23462 Dialup and dedicated connections Ph: 804-499-9328 Virtual Web, Email, and FTP hosting http://www.livenet.net info@livenet.net webmaster@livenet.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------