Hello List...
I'm just using the latest release 4.1.24 as my webserver (no apache) with the
intention of generating all (or nearly all) content from a back-end db.
However I'm worried about starting the server and running as root - security issues.
How does the apache server use it's own
Apache starts running as root, and binds to port 80 during initialization.
Then to server requests (at least on *nix systems, and the details my very
for Apache 2.0 depending on the MPM), it forks itself. The child process
then changes it's identity to the non-privileged user. However, since the
