You can start apache with "apachectl start" as root just fine, you don't need to su to the apache user. And you must be mis-understanding the permissions or something cause if you do infact have apache running as a seperate user, there's no way it can delete a file owned by root unless maybe the user it's running as is in the root group.
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:47, Jacob Marble wrote: > Hey all- > I'm writing some PHP scripts that have the ability to delete, rename, > upload, etc. files to the webserver. It's a simple on-line file manager for > some family members. > The question: I don't want to allow apache to delete certain files, > specifically files that are owned by root. But it can. I made a simple > phpinfo.php file and I can delete it with this file manager. I don't think > it ought to, since it's run as user nobody (httpd.conf setting). I've tried > changing the setting in httpd.conf to a new user called apache, still no > good. > Doing a "ps aux" from the bash prompt says that apache has about 6 or 8 > processes, the first of which is being run as root; the rest are apache (or > nobody, depending on the httpd.conf setting). To remedy this, I stopped > apache and then restarted it with: > su -c "/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start" apache > It wouldn't start, complaining that it couldn't access the log file. > I've tried chown'ing the inaccessable files, I've tried doing my make > install as user apache, all did no good. > Does anyone know a good solution to this problem? How to get apache to > run completely as a user other than root? > > Thanks in advance, > > Jake > > LandEZ -- Adam Voigt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux/Unix Network Administrator The Cryptocomm Group -- PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
