Apache Process Running as Root?

[nickp666]

Hey Guys,

Got a strange one here, seems as if one of my apache processes is running as root, even after a restart of apache this morning it is there, is there a particular reason for this? is it not a security risk?

the specific line after ps -A -F:

root 18687 1 0 1862 4028 0 09:51 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL

[nickp666]

found why - WHM apache restarter spawns a root process, is this a bug?

[NT]

I think Apache is initially run as root and then spawns children with the Apache user.

Hope that helps.

[dropby23]

that is right mani process starts under root