Apache

The_JinJ · 11-25-2004, 07:09 PM

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

Aeiri · 11-26-2004, 01:08 AM

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

sigsegv · 11-26-2004, 01:43 AM

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.