Finding out what user Apache is running as?

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Published on 2010-03-24T16:13:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 16:23 UTC
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I want to secure a file upload directory on my server as described beautifully here, but I have one problem before I can follow these instructions. I don't know what user Apache is running as.

I've found a suggestion that you can look in httpd.conf and there will be a "User" line, but there is no such line in my httpd.conf file, so I guess Apache is running as the default user. I can't find out what that is, though.

So, my question is (are):

how do I find out what the default user is
do I need to change the default user
if the answer is yes and I change the default user by editing httpd.conf, is it likely to screw anything up?

Thanks!

Finding out what user Apache is running as?

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Published on 2010-03-24T16:22:31Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 16:33 UTC
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I want to secure a file upload directory on my server as described beautifully here, but I have one problem before I can follow these instructions. I don't know what user Apache is running as.

I've found a suggestion that you can look in httpd.conf and there will be a "User" line, but there is no such line in my httpd.conf file, so I guess Apache is running as the default user. I can't find out what that is, though.

So, my question is (are):

how do I find out what the default user is
do I need to change the default user
if the answer is yes and I change the default user by editing httpd.conf, is it likely to screw anything up?

Thanks!

----- UPDATE ------

Seems to have been answered here. Sorry, I got told off on StackOverflow and told to post it here, then posted it here, then it got answered on StackOverflow anyway!

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