Hello Josh, Deny IP - thank you very much for the clarification. I feel much more at ease being sure rather than just guessing and hoping!
thanks again LN On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Deny IP Any Any <[email protected]> wrote: > back in the old days, the Apache daemon ran as the user 'root'. This > caused lots of security issues (think if someone wrote a web page that > tries to write to /etc/password; since Apache ran as root, so their > their script). > > In current systems, Apache runs as a non-root user; this user is often > called www, or apache, or www-data, etc. The actual name makes no > difference, as long as it isn't ran as root. On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Layla Nahar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've seen reference in some mails on this list to the user www. > I have user 'apache' in my system and Smokeping is running without user www. > I tried checked on the internet to try and find our if there are any > conventions or requirements vis a vis 'www' but found very little. > > I suspect this is a very elementary question, but would someone mind > clarifying how it is used in connection with smokeping? I'm guessing > it is just the convention among some admins to have this user start > and run apache server, but I'd like to be sure. > > thanks > LN > _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
