[X-Unix] Creating users with the command line
Pedro fp
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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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