httpd lineage

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 09:20 am, you wrote:
> Debian wins on the package/process naming front, while RH wins the
> username category.  IMO, the username (for this particular example) is
> fine as either apache or httpd.  But www-data?

The username is relatively arbitrary, so long as it's not nobody or something 
these days.  You could run any webserver you want though and they should all 
theoretically run as the same username.  If you ran thttpd and ran it as 
apache, would that make sense?  I would want those processes to have access 
to the same data if I'm running a wiki or something where the applications 
running in the web server require some level of privileged access to the 
filesystem.
-Neil