RE: Rebooting with WebAdmin scripts

[Marcos Rubinstein ALPA WWW]

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Tim Sellar wrote:

> 
> Running the Apache processes as root raises security issues in that it makes
> certain root exploits possible. However, if the process does not run as
> root, it is unable to allocate ports < 1024. Instead we make it allocate the

starting apache as root.. but running it as web... 

User web
Group web

in /etc/httpd.conf (in the vs)...

do something like above poses security problems?????

TIA

Cheers!

Marcos