[Techtalk] Web Server User

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Saturday 15 Oct 2005 6:33 am, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I like to create a unique user for each service, rather than sharing
> 'nobody'. That way if one of them is compromised, the damage is
> limited.

mandrake has a user called 'apache' and freebsd has 'www'

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