On 12/19/05, Arthur DiSegna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering about the necessity of placing User Nobody and Group Nobody > lines in httpd.conf. > > I loaded a high performance type httpd.conf file and these values are left > out. Apache still runs the initial process as root with all child processes > run under nobody. > > Is it even necessary to specify the user and group values in an httpd.conf > file (unless you want something different)?
Not really. To see how a directive behaves when it is omitted from the config file, check the "Default" setting in the docs: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html#user http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html#group In the case of User/Group the default is #-1, which will work fine on some OSes and not so well on others. Joshua.
