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Question

I am having trouble in accessing files on the server. exec(whoami) returns apache. However, files that I have to read and write through PHP scripts have a username as ben like this:

-rw-r--r-- 1 ben staff 1000 Mar 27 17:54 backup_1.sql
-rw-r----- 1 ben staff 2000 Mar 27 17:54 backup_2.sql

Setting write permission to apache on this subdirectory will do the job, but then I am concerned of security.

On my website, I have a login system. Is there a way to change a webserver user to ben upon logging-in to a specific account in database, say admin? Is it even possible to change the webserver username from apache to something else?

Answer 1

Is it even possible to change the webserver username from apache to something else?

You need to change the User and Group directive in Apache configuration file. In Ubuntu the main configuration file is /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

User ben 
Group staff

Restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart