[TriLUG] sendmail jujitsu with virtual hosts

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Alan Porter wrote:

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>> Alternately, you could get even more amusing, and run apache as the 
>> user "donotreply".  :)  This is as easy as changing the username in 
>> /etc/passwd and maybe an init script or two.  :)
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> I tried this on a Debian box last year and it blew up in my face.
> I wanted apache to run as a user named "apache".  Go figure.
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> There are places in the apache source (or perhaps this was one of
> the Debian mods) that specifically requires the user to be "www-data".
> I forget the details... it might have dealt with running CGI scripts.
> Anyway, I decided that the easiest solution was to leave the user
> name as-is.
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> But then again, that might be what Aaron considers to be "amusing".
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I don't think it's integrated too tightly into the code:
$ ps axu | grep httpd
root      1059  0.0  1.6 18620 3636 ?        S    Jun26   0:07 
/usr/sbin/httpd
apache   26636  0.0  1.7 18752 3968 ?        S    Sep20   0:01 
/usr/sbin/httpd

But then again, this is apache1.3 not apache2.  The first box I looked 
at was debian w/ user www-data running apache2.  Perhaps it's something 
in the newer version?  That seems unlike the apache software foundation, 
or any good unix daemon, for that matter.

Aaron S. Joyner