On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:05 PM, 0 <0...@0throot.com> wrote:
> The short answer to your question is to bind to privileged port 80.
Nice reply :-)
To OP, long answer is:
http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/PrivilegeSeparation
- Raja
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On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 17:30 +0530, Sundaram Ramachandran wrote:
> > only root can start apache - that thread has 'start' in it.
>
> Nonsense. Every process has 'start' in it. Go through the posted
> process output before commenting.
>
> To answer the OP; the first apache process is started by roo
> only root can start apache - that thread has 'start' in it.
Nonsense. Every process has 'start' in it. Go through the posted process output
before commenting.
To answer the OP; the first apache process is started by root user. The
remaining processes are spawned by apache user.
...KRS
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On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 16:10 +0530, Shrinivasan T wrote:
> Why root owns one thread?
only root can start apache - that thread has 'start' in it.
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> I think that www-data is the user that runs the apache webserver for security.
> But, one thread of apache is owned by root.
>
> What is the concept behind it?
> Why root owns one thread?
>
It is mostly likely running in prefork model. In the following link,
look at section "How it works".
htt
In my ubuntu 12.04 box, I run apache web server.
ps -ef | grep apache
root 31984 1 0 16:06 ?00:00:00
/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 31989 31984 0 16:06 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 31990 31984 0 16:06 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k
