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

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 09.07.2004 schrieb Michael Sullivan um 18:16:

> I ran the ps -eax | grep httpd and it gave me this output:

> I don't quite understand what all that means, but the only USER=
> statement I saw in there was root.  Is this correct?  Is there anyway I
> can make this process run as user apache instead?

man ps --> the "u" parameter

ps axuwww | grep httpd

Alexander


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