• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        Forgive me my ignorance, but since Apache is running as root, couldn’t PHP inherit it’s permissions?

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          4 months ago

          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.