Hello everyone, I have an Apache 2.2x server and would like to harden security so that hackers can't get in easily to the Apache webserver. One suggestion is to change the user/group for Apache to a non-privileged account.
Currently the user "fpp" is the default user for Apache which has access to the operating system via sudo commands. I entered these commands to create a non-privileged account: sudo groupadd http-web sudo useradd -d /opt/fpp/www/ -g http-web http-web I then edited /etc/apache2/envvars to change these lines: export APACHE_RUN_USER=http-web export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=http-web I also ran this command to change user/group permissions on this folder: sudo chown -R http-web:http-web /var/lock/apache2/ sudo chown -R http-web:http-web /opt/fpp/www Finally, I restarted the Apache service with this command: sudo service apache2 restart When I try to access the website on this server, I receive the following message: Forbidden: You don't have permission to access / on this server. I've been scouring the Internet trying to figure out how to switch the default "fpp" Apache user to a non-privileged account and can't figure it out. Can someone shed some light on this? Thanks! Tom
