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Running Apache as a different user
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Mar 15, 202685775 viewsConfidence Score0%
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When I run the command to list out all the process, I can see Apache running as and seems to have sub-processes running as . Here's the excerpt: Can I make Apache and all sub-processes run as different user ? If so how? I read somewhere that the settings for this can be found in but that file seems…
Error Output
root 30117 1 0 09:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 30119 30117 0 09:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k…
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Apache has to run as root initially in order to bind to port 80. If you don't run it as root initially then you cannot bind to port 80. If you want to bind to some port above 1024 then yes, you can. Otherwise don't worry about root. That is the pare…
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