Hello, By default Apache starts it first process under root and all children run as a different user/group processes (nobody). I added a user and group (both with the same name) and assiged the GID a value of 60000. I changed the httpd.conf directives to match the new values. User newuser Group newuser When I run ps aux | grep httpd the values under root display as 60000 versus the user. root 28260 0.0 0.0 4736 2204 ? Ss 12:40 0:00 /cant/tell/apacheAH64/bin/httpd -k restart 60000 28261 0.0 0.0 4872 2220 ? S 12:40 0:00 /cant/tell/apacheAH64/bin/httpd -k restart /etc/passwd reads - newuser:x:60000:60000:newuser:/var/lib/nobody:/bin/bash /etc/passwd for nobody reads - nobody:x:65534:65533:nobody:/var/lib/nobody:/bin/bash /etc/group reads - newuser:x:60000:newuser What am I missing? Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx