[X-Unix] Creating users with the command line

Pedro fp lists at pedro.Net.au
Mon Oct 11 23:37:00 PDT 2004


After some mucking around I'd concluded as much & decided to stick with 
'em.

On 12/10/2004, at 7:51 AM, Eugene wrote:

> The purpose of creating a seperate user/group is to take advantage of
> the Unix user privilege system to isolate Apache from undesired access
> to other non-web files.  Apple has already done so with its 
> installation
> of Apache.  Just use user "www" and group "www".

Cheers, Pedro :-)

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