On 20/01/2011, at 10:55, Francisco Javier Funes Nieto wrote:
> 2011/1/20 Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[email protected]>:
>> On 20/01/2011, at 10:15, Francisco Javier Funes Nieto wrote:
>> 
>>> --with-wwwuser and --with-wwwgroup pointing to www-data user/group the
>>> configure didn't respect this options and after make and make install
>>> Cherokee runs at root user, that's not my idea.
>> 
>> Cherokee must be launched at root, otherwise it could not open the TCP 80 or 
>> its log files. Do not be worried about it, though. It drops its privileges 
>> as soon as those operations are performed.  If you check the user of 
>> 'cherokee-worker' you will see that it is running under your user of choice 
>> - www-data, in this case.
> 
> But the worker still runs at root:
> 
> root     15617  0.0  0.1  89816  3404 ?        Sl   00:37   0:03
> /usr/sbin/cherokee-worker --admin_child -C /etc/cherokee/cherokee.conf
> 
> I did a make&&make install one, the first, without
> --with-wwwuser/wwwgroup and the second with both params. Maybe I need
> to distclean the sources and the recompile?

No, there is no need. It's a configurable parameter. You'll just have to launch 
cherokee-admin to adjust the settings:

  Top menu "General" ➭ "Permissions" tab ➭ "User" and "Group" fields.

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