[svlug] Apache and NIS

[J. Paul Reed]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Karen Shaeffer wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 01:23:39AM -0700, J. Paul Reed wrote:
> > 
> > Hey all:
> > 
> > I've got NIS set up and working on our internal network.
> > 
> > I'm trying to get Apache 1.3.12 to run under a user who's information
> > comes from NIS; however, whenever I start up Apache, it refuses to listen
> > to the configuration file, and instead switches to a uid of 'nobody.'
> > 
> > Has anyone seen this before and/or know a way around it? Does this have
> > something to do with Apache, or is it a libc thing?
> 
> $ grep 'nobody' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
> User nobody
> Group nobody
> 
> Hope that helps.

As much as I come off as a newbie sometimes... ;-)

I did change the User/Group directives in httpd.conf to the user in NIS I
want the server to run as...I also tried putting in UIDs with the '#uid'
syntax...no go.

Later,
Paul
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