On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Vitale, Joseph <joseph.vit...@bnymellon.com> wrote: > You hit it on the head. Much appreciated. I understand Web server > should not run as root. Not sure I can change that now w/out breaking it.
Apache httpd is designed to be started as root and drop to an unprivileged userid for request processing. You can start as non-root and stay there, but it can surprisingly complicate some things. In a lot of ways, now you've created a midway-priveleged userid. -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
