Apache running as root
On my Debian lenny server, whenever I start Apache, one instance is owned by root, the rest (about a half-dozen) by www-data. Is this the way it's supposed to be?
The instance owned by root, incidentally, is the same PID that is listening on port 80. I'm guessing it needs this to listen on privileged ports and it just forwards incoming requests to a waiting instance (running as www-data), but I just wanted to make sure I don't have something running that should be, or running in a way it shouldn't be.
The instance owned by root, incidentally, is the same PID that is listening on port 80. I'm guessing it needs this to listen on privileged ports and it just forwards incoming requests to a waiting instance (running as www-data), but I just wanted to make sure I don't have something running that should be, or running in a way it shouldn't be.
