Which user is httpd?

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This Dreamhost thread was started by NickC on 2010-04-15 22:43:27:

Post Reply? Can someone give me the definitive answer as to the user that httpd runs as? I’ve heard it runs as me, as the group I belong to (which is like pg9999999), as nobody, and so on. I’m trying to sort out directory and file permissions for a perl script that runs as cgi and which wants to write to a log file. Other scripts run fine with 755, but this script appears to be having some write issues. This is such a basic thing, yet there is a surprising amount of misinformation when you go googling for it. Thanks.

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