Working as root while Apache is running; how much a risk? (repost after subject line error)

[Dave Pawson]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 20:01, Scot L. Harris wrote:

> On multi-user systems you should use su to get to root privileges or
> even better configure sudo to limit the commands that people can/need to
> run as root.  It is a nice way to permit people to run certain things as
> root but not grant root access to the entire system.

Thanks Scot, Sounds like a good idea. I'll look into that.

What about running tomcat or apache?
Any guidelines on creating users/groups for such as that?

regards DaveP