On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:13:37AM -0500, Nate Carlson wrote: > nobody is NOT designed to be used as a generic user. lots of other > programs use it (incorrectly). IIRC, it was created to be used for NFS, > and NFS only.. you are much safer using a user for the webserver itself. You are very right, I have different users for plain apache, apache with mod_perl, etc. But Apache ships with User nobody by default, which is kind of bad then. -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>