On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 08:38:18PM +1300, worik wrote: > Yes. > > But is the error message: > > httpd: need root privileges > > Accurate?
This is the paradox of modern secure code. You need to start stuff as root because you want to do stuff in startup code that you can only do as root, namely: - chroots - dropping privileges to dedicated users. Yep, it's counter-intuitive, but most modern standard Unix secure code is *more secure* when started as root.
