HTTPD ownership

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b0x3r

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Hi when I do a
ls -l on the httpd directory I get the following entry for the httpd.conf file.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel

Is the reference to root mean that root is running the process or owns the process. It seems to me that I would want to change root to nobody which is a user with no priviledges. Is that correct?
And if so how do I do that?

Thanks,
 
First off httpd.conf is a file not a process. The permissions you have listed for the file are correct.

Correct me if I am wrong others but I believe when apache is started the httpd.conf file is read and all httpd processes are set as the user listed in that file. In Mac OS X server's case that user is www who has no other privilege than to run httpd.

To see the process for httpd either go to the terminal and type: ps aux|grep httpd and this will show any httpd processes, or have a look at /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.
 
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