[ale] Lowering account privileges in a script

[Jeff Lightner]

I thought apache always had to start as root and it was the httpd.conf
that told it what user to run the actual httpd accessed by users as.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
David Tomaschik
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:26 PM
To: John Mills; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Lowering account privileges in a script

Something like this should do:

su -c "apachectl start" nobody



John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> I would like to run a web server as 'nobody:nobody' rather than a more

> privileged user (especially since I plan to crash-test it!). How can I

> launch it that way?
>
> TIA.
>  - Mills
>
>   

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