[olug] Apache 2.0 Question

[Kenton Brede]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:12:40PM -0700, CM Miller wrote:
> 
> Wondering about this all day. 
> 
> I have MySQL installed and I changed the the passwd
> for user mysql.  
> 
> Looking under httpd.conf, I see there is a group and
> user both called apache
> 
> 
> [cmmiller at phoenix cmmiller]$ cat /etc/group | grep
> apache
> apache:x:48:
> [cmmiller at phoenix cmmiller]$ grep apache /etc/passwd
> apache:x:48:48:Apache:/var/www:/sbin/nologin
> 
> 
> Under /etc/passwd, it says nologin. 
> 
> Do I even need to worry about setting a passwd for
> this user/group.  Is it even possible to set a passwd,
> I've tried with no success. 

No you don't want to set a password for user apache.  
I'm sure you can guess what /sbin/nologin does but "man nologin" will
give you a little info.
hth,
kent

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