Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:10:00 +0100 From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jb.quenot@caraldi.com> To: FreeBSD-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Running processes as no root... Message-ID: <20031126130958.GD2634@watt.intra.caraldi.com> In-Reply-To: <000701c3b41d$5684f070$0901a8c0@bloodlust> References: <000701c3b41d$5684f070$0901a8c0@bloodlust>
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--DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Xpression: > Hi list, I've recently installed some services (WWW, Proxy, FTP) on a > FreeBSD-4.8 server, I read all documentation about running processes > as no root, ok I agree about it, but every process still running with > some user and group but each one have one process running like root, > this is ok, or I dismiss something ??? Thanks... Usually there is one process owned by root, that is used for critical operation, but the others are forked from it and have their owner switched, to user 'www' as of Apache. To be able to write the log files, to switch user, and a few more operations, this is indeed achieved as root. All child processes are typically non-root. Cheers, --=20 Jean-Baptiste Quenot http://caraldi.com/jbq/ --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/xKYm9xx3BCMc9gsRAjIHAJ4p0/Y7J0FOSYeyIpJIYKCEG/t7gACaAsX3 SOaPrHKY0iLt/Oj+3d7MExM= =qnle -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi--
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