Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hyperreal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA14831; Wed, 14 May 1997 22:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hyperreal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA14769 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 22:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id XAA17338 for new-httpd@hyperreal.com; Wed, 14 May 1997 23:58:37 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA29288 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 23:53:11 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 23:53:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: [BUG] DEFAULT_USER has to exist Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org If the DEFAULT_USER or DEFAULT_GROUP doesn't exist, then Apache refuses to start even though it may not be running as root (and therefore won't switch uids) or the User directive is pointing to some other user. This is an unnecessary hardcoded configuration detail. Unless anyone can argue that this is a feature not a bug, I will drop it into the PR database so it isn't forgotten... Not a pressing issue.