Hi Richard,
Thanks for the advice! If I understand you, the user/group that the
webserver is running as needs to have read access on files and execute on
directories, but at the same time not be an "owner" of these files &
directories. Is that correct?
Thanks again,
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard [mailto:lists-apache@listmail.innovate.net ]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:06 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Change user for Apache web server to a
non-privileged user?
> Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 08:16:32 -0400
> From: Tom Hammond <tominohio@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I have an Apache 2.2x server and would like to harden security so that
> hackers can't get in easily to the Apache webserver. One suggestion
> is to change the user/group for Apache to a non-privileged account.
>
> Currently the user "fpp" is the default user for Apache which has
> access to the operating system via sudo commands.
>
> I entered these commands to create a non-privileged account:
> sudo groupadd http-web
> sudo useradd -d /opt/fpp/www/ -g http-web http-web
>
> I then edited /etc/apache2/envvars to change these lines:
> export APACHE_RUN_USER=http-web
>
> export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=http-web
>
> I also ran this command to change user/group permissions on this
> folder: sudo chown -R http-web:http-web /var/lock/apache2/ sudo chown
> -R http-web:http-web /opt/fpp/www
>
> Finally, I restarted the Apache service with this command:
> sudo service apache2 restart
>
> When I try to access the website on this server, I receive the
> following message:
>
> Forbidden: You don't have permission to access / on this server.
>
> I've been scouring the Internet trying to figure out how to switch the
> default "fpp" Apache user to a non-privileged account and can't figure
> it out. Can someone shed some light on this?
There's nothing about the "apache" user/group that inherently makes it
privileged. It's just a standard user/group that the apache server
(generally) runs as.
What you do want to make certain of is that your DocumentRoot is not owned
by the user/group that the webserver is running as, and that it is not
writable by that user/group.
The webserver does need read access to the files (and execute to
directories) under the DocumentRoot.
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