Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2008-01-23 at 21:16 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
I'm certain that suse has never shipped a distro where apache runs as root.
Not by default, but that doesn't mean much.
Try this:
$ su password # /etc/init.d/apache start
As it happens, that's the method suse starts up apache or apache2 - and it doesn't run as root, but as wwwrun, except for the parent process.
That's just one of many ways to start apache as root. If the person setting up a website was reading a book written by someone who is relatively clueless, then you have a situation which can best be described as "The blind leading the naked."
So, I guess suse is clueless... :-p
Ah...Suse's script dies an su. Good! But it's not necessarily so for all systems. Especially if someone got an old book on setting up websites and was advised to write his own start-up script. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org