httpd running as _www instead of www as it used to

Posted by Ethon Bridges on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Ethon Bridges
Published on 2012-11-04T15:32:40Z Indexed on 2012/11/04 17:04 UTC
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OSX Mountain Lion and Apache 2.2.22.

I have always had the httpd.conf set as:

User www Group www

and it was running as such. Until today. Rebooted the server for another reason and when I tried to make some changes to a website via FTP this evening, it said access denied. Got to looking at the processes and httpd is now running as _www. WTH?

Now of course all of my users are getting denied messages I assume because they were all created and permitted with the www user, not _www.

Any idea why this happened or what I may have done to cause it?

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