The catch is the port. If your server is not listening on standard ports (80 or 443) you can start your server up as any user. However, the privileged ports (1-1024) are generally (always?) restricted so that only UID 0 can create listeners that bind to them. As indicated by a previous post, the general idea is to start up the listener as UID 0, bind to the privileged port, and then drop the process owner to a non-UID 0 account after the bind is successful. On 4/5/06 9:43 AM, "Amalan, S" <Sountharanayaga.Amalan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Not to interrupt an on-going discussion, but I am interested in the > user/group requirements for Apache as well. > > I didn't see anywhere on the Apache website for installation steps that > one needs to be root in order to start or run the Apache server, but I > have heard it from others. So which way is it? > > I have been able to install and run Apache as a regular user with no > root privileges, which is what confuses me when some say the user needs > be root. > > Can anyone explain the requirements for me? > > Thanks much. > Amalan -- Ross A. Del Duca, GCIH Security Officer Infrastructure Architect RDelDuca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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