Thanks to Gary and Keith for their input! Indeed, RHEL 4
did create the apache accounts. In an attempt to verify that the accounts were
not created improperly, I manually created another non-administrative account
and attempted to launch the daemon under that identity. Both attempts failed
(running as apache and www-data were unsuccessful and yielded the bad username
error message.) Still researching the error, but apparently it is an uncommon
error as I’ve only found one post referring to it! Kermit Short System
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