Hi there.

> On Jul 14, 2017, at 9:29 AM, Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> wrote:
>
> In unix land, usually, if a process starts running as root, then it is
> able to "switch" to run as another user. If a process starts running as
> non-root, it is not able to switch to run as another user.
>
> And (usually) only root is able to bind() to port 80.
>
> (Exceptions exist, but this is probably good enough for now.)

And in FreeBSD’s case, seeing nginx.conf to `user root;` kicks up an error saying this is unacceptable, and it ignores the directive.

Cheers

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Rich in Toronto @ VP






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