Re: Working as root while Apache is running; how much a risk?

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• Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 22:56:41 -0400
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On Thursday 08 July 2004 8:16 pm, Alan Horn wrote:

>  You should never _RUN_ the webserver as root

Hi,

How then you make Apache listen to port 80 (a port below 1024) as another user 
other than root? ..since only root may use those ports below 1024.

Jorge

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