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Wow!
Indeed, somehow SELinux was enabled. I’ve disabled it in the config
file, but knowing nothing about SELinux, I don’t know what else I need to
do…your input is gratefully welcomed!! Thanks! From: Gary W. Smith
[mailto:gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Kermit, I know that it runs
fine out of the box as we have multiple RHEL 4 servers. Did you enable
selinux by chance as part of the configuration? I recall this being a
problem some time ago for some of the applications. Gary Wayne Smith From: Kermit Short
[mailto:k_short@xxxxxxxx]
I understand. I’m not logging in as these users. What I meant
by saying that I attempted to run apache as the users “apache” and
“www-data”, was that I specified those usernames in the httpd.conf
file. I have attempted to launch the process using either sudo or a
direct root login, so when I issue the command “/etc/init.d/httpd
start” I’m doing so with uid 0. Nonetheless, I receive
the error message of “bad username”. Thanks for your
advice, though! From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Kermit, 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! |
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