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minus-squarelawrence@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoThe Apache main process runs as root. When it receives a request, it spawns a child process that doesn’t run as root. PHP runs as the same user as the Apache child process.
minus-squarejollyroguelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoOr PHP runs in its own fastcgi like process under a different account.
The Apache main process runs as root. When it receives a request, it spawns a child process that doesn’t run as root. PHP runs as the same user as the Apache child process.
Or PHP runs in its own fastcgi like process under a different account.