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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Forgive me my ignorance, but since Apache is running as root, couldn't PHP inherit it's permissions?

[–] lawrence@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Apache main process runs as root. When it receives a request, it spawns a child process that doesn't run as root. PHP runs as the same user as the Apache child process.

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Or PHP runs in its own fastcgi like process under a different account.