Re: Apache running as root

What happens when you run:

ps aux | grep httpd

from shell?

It should tell you who is really running Apache.

Sincerely,
Eric 'phpfreak' Rosebrock
http://www.phpfreaks.com


Alvaro G. Vicario wrote:


> My httpd.conf has these lines:

> User apache
> Group apache

> Both user and group exist. However, it seems Apache it's actually
> running
> with as root. When I check environmental variables using PHP it says
> things
> like:

> PWD=/root
> USER=root
> MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
> BASH_ENV=/root/.bashrc
> HOME=/root

> I need to run a little shell script from a PHP page and I don't want it
> to
> have root privileges. I've checked Google and Apache.org but I don't
> seem to
> be searching correctly... Any hints? Thank you in advance.








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