You don’t lunch it under the non-privileged account. You luanch it under root and then Apache will change the thread to run under the user your specify under the configuration file. As mentioned before, non-privileged users CANNOT create a tcp listener under port 1024 without being root. This is why you need to originally start the application as such.
Gary
On 1/23/06 2:19 PM, "Kermit Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks to Gary and Keith for their input! Indeed, RHEL 4 did create the apache accounts. In an attempt to verify that the accounts were not created improperly, I manually created another non-administrative account and attempted to launch the daemon under that identity. Both attempts failed (running as apache and www-data were unsuccessful and yielded the bad username error message.) Still researching the error, but apparently it is an uncommon error as I’ve only found one post referring to it!
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