It is.   The parent httpd process will _always_ be owned as root (if
root starts the daemon).   The children will be owned by the user given
to the 'user' config-directive.

This is normal ...

> My system does this same thing.  But, I believe it is due to the
> following...
> 
> ps -aux reveals the following httpd processes (edited for readability)
> root        S<   Jun28   0:03 /usr/local/apache_1.3.6/bin/httpd
> nobody   S<   Jun28   0:20 /usr/local/apache_1.3.6/bin/httpd
> nobody   S<   Jun28   0:04 /usr/local/apache_1.3.6/bin/httpd
> nobody   S<   Jun28   0:03 /usr/local/apache_1.3.6/bin/httpd
> etc...
> 
> Notice how the first process is owned by root.  and all of its children are
> nobody.  Perhaps your system is running the same way....
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