That's entirely possible - I inherited this box and have found other examples of
poor implementation. Thank goodness for workarounds!
"Airey, John" wrote:
> Your OSs implementation of the "nobody" account is poor perhaps? This is
> mentioned in the Apache documentation, ie
>
> #
> # If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
> # httpd as root initially and it will switch.
> #
> # User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
> # . On SCO (ODT 3) use "User nouser" and "Group nogroup".
> # . On HPUX you may not be able to use shared memory as nobody, and the
> # suggested workaround is to create a user www and use that user.
> # NOTE that some kernels refuse to setgid(Group) or semctl(IPC_SET)
> # when the value of (unsigned)Group is above 60000;
> # don't use Group nobody on these systems!
> #
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diana Moreland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 20 July 2000 20:03
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SSLMutex error
>
> So I wonder why mine wouldn't work?
>
> Mads Toftum wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:42:08AM -0700, David Rees wrote:
> > >
> > > Is anyone running mod_ssl as nobody with a /dev/null shell successfully?
> > >
> > Yep.
> >
> > vh
> >
> > Mads Toftum
> > --
> > `Darn it, who spiked my coffee with water?!' - lwall
> >
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