Alternately, you could get even more amusing, and run apache as the user "donotreply". :) This is as easy as changing the username in /etc/passwd and maybe an init script or two. :)
I tried this on a Debian box last year and it blew up in my face. I wanted apache to run as a user named "apache". Go figure. There are places in the apache source (or perhaps this was one of the Debian mods) that specifically requires the user to be "www-data". I forget the details... it might have dealt with running CGI scripts. Anyway, I decided that the easiest solution was to leave the user name as-is. But then again, that might be what Aaron considers to be "amusing". Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
