Re: [Slashcode-development] questions regarding slashd and the user it runs under.

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 10:59 -0500 2001.03.17, shane wrote:
>>2. in the vars table, the name field siteowner has a default value of
>>nobody. the description is "What user this runs as". what user what runs as?
>>slashd? should this be set as nobody or foo?
>
>ps auxw - that'll show you who it's running as. what user do you
>have apache running under? httpd? nobody? apache? www?
>
>I'd either keep it that same user, or in your case, 'foo'.

Actually, this is not what user Apache runs as, but what user slashd should
run as.  Apache is assumed to run as nobody.  slashd is the program
actually writing to files, so it is the process we care about for this.

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