[Ilugc] apache as Non-root user

Suresh Ramasubramanian linux at frodo.hserus.net
Sun Dec 5 19:57:24 IST 2004


saravanan ganapathy wrote:

> 
> How only one apache incidence runs as root user?
> 
> Is there any security issues related to this?
> 

Apache starts up as root and then forks a non root, unprivileged user to 
handle http requests

This is a feature

	srs


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