From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Sep 4 11:52: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from fe000.worldonline.dk (fe000.worldonline.dk [212.54.64.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 878B237B406 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3813 invoked by uid 0); 4 Sep 2001 18:51:53 -0000 Received: from 213.237.13.224.adsl.hc.worldonline.dk (HELO NEIGAARD?MOB) (213.237.13.224) by fe000.worldonline.dk with SMTP; 4 Sep 2001 18:51:53 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:53:08 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.51) Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <13211784995.20010904205308@e-box.dk> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: httpd user for Apache? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have read somewhere that it is a good idea to make you'r applications run under specific users, and not under root. How is the best way to configure such a user, as an example a user for the Apache httpd deamon (i got so far as to name the user httpd). Should it be in a specific group, have restricted rights and so on... -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:neigaard@e-box.dk -- "The only truly secure computer is one buried in concrete, with the power turned off and the network cable cut." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message