Subject: Re: httpd: bad user name httpd
From: Stephen Lewis (lewis@napanet.net)
Date: Tue Sep 21 1999 - 21:37:59 MDT
Well the Apache rpm on the YDL distro seems to work OK
and in the /etc/passwd file there are following users:
httpd:x:15:60:httpd:/home/httpd:
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:
and in /etc/group there are the following groups:
httpd::60:
nobody::99:
My guess (only a guess) is that these are different on your
system and that Apache is trying to tell you it expects these
users/numbers/groups(?). Whether they are in a config file I don't know.
Stephen Lewis
Heinz Nabielek wrote:
>
> >Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:29:09 -0700
> >From: Stephen Lewis <lewis@napanet.net>
> >Subject: Re: httpd: bad user name httpd
> >
> >I have apache-1.3.6-9 running on YDL and it does not have
> >this problem. Check your /etc/passwd file for syntax errors
> >and the default user names including 'nobody' and 'httpd'
> >they must not only be present I believe they must have the userid
> >numbers
> >apache expects.
> >Stephen Lewis
>
> I always had nobody and never had httpd as users before
> on prior versions of apache.
>
> Which userid etc. does apache expect?
> Heinz
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