hi, all. i was wandering why the first process of apache runs as superuser, while the others run as nobody, as shown in the excerpt of "ps -aux" below. is it ok? doesn't it open any security breach? root 364 0.0 0.5 6312 656 ? S Nov16 0:00 /usr/bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf nobody 373 0.0 0.5 6424 680 ? S Nov16 0:00 /usr/bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf nobody 374 0.0 0.5 6576 696 ? S Nov16 0:00 /usr/bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf nobody 375 0.0 0.5 6568 696 ? S Nov16 0:00 /usr/bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf nobody 377 0.0 0.5 6568 676 ? S Nov16 0:00 /usr/bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf nobody 378 0.0 0.5 6632 692 ? S Nov16 0:00 /usr/bin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf thank you for any help, angico. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.
