From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 4 22:46:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67ABF14D20 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 22:46:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 12030 invoked from network); 5 Jul 1999 05:46:31 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 5 Jul 1999 05:46:31 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990704224033.009a86f0@toy> X-Sender: ludwigp@toy X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 22:46:32 -0700 To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Use of user nobody Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990704213504.GDNY112692.mta2-rme@wocker> References: <199907041724.LAA05763@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <199907040824.EAA27272@arutam.inch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:32 AM 7/5/1999 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: >Given the above, I recall reading somewhere that it's better to create a >separate user for apache (such as http). Any logic behind that reasoning? Well, on my system, I created an apache user so that I could have apache-related files like web password or config files that Apache should read but that other users couldn't. --Ludwig Pummer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message