Apache - running as root
 

Just configured and installed apache 1.33 on Fedora Core 3
When I run it all works ok but doing a ps aux | grep apache shows one of the processes running as root and the others as nobody - should then all be nobody or another user (maybe apache) and have no root users at all?)

Is it a case of making a new user, changing file attribs and who it runs as to do this if needed?

Thanks

All of the threads handling network communications are run as nobody, and the main thread is run as root. That is normal.

Just for clarification's sake -- the main httpd process runs as root so that it can bind to port 80 and (if needed) 443. Only root can bind to ports < 1024 (under Linux), so it's necessary to have the server start as UID 0 then seteuid() down to someone with less power.