Is it possible to run apache as a non-root user?
Issue
- For some customers it's not necessary to run
Apacheasrootsince they use ports > 1024 (unprivileged ports) and thus do not exposeApacheto possible security threats. - I have installed
Apacheserver and by default it is running asroot, I would like to run this as non root user
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 5.x
- 6.x
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