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Re: applications, users, groups, permissions



On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:20:15AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> 
> Apache forks new processes which change their effective UID and GID
> to match what you put in the directives above.  The OS does not need
> to know anything special as it just sees a given process try to do
> something.
> 
There is also suexec, which allows Apache to fork a process with the
efective UID and GID of the owner of that particular CGI script.

Regards,

-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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