Hi there. > On Jul 14, 2017, at 9:29 AM, Francis Daly <fran...@daoine.org> wrote: > > In unix land, usually, if a process starts running as root, then it is > able to "switch" to run as another user. If a process starts running as > non-root, it is not able to switch to run as another user. > > And (usually) only root is able to bind() to port 80. > > (Exceptions exist, but this is probably good enough for now.)
And in FreeBSD’s case, seeing nginx.conf to `user root;` kicks up an error saying this is unacceptable, and it ignores the directive. Cheers _____________ Rich in Toronto @ VP _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
