after installing XAMPP on linux i have seen the folder “htdocs” belongs to “nobody”.
Has this any intention? Do you think owning that folder is a good practice?
Regards
Javi
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after installing XAMPP on linux i have seen the folder “htdocs” belongs to “nobody”.
Has this any intention? Do you think owning that folder is a good practice?
Regards
Javi
For security reasons.
It also means that apache should be also running as “nobody” and have read access to htdocs.
Some Linux distributions use “nobody” for servers and daemons while others create a user for each service (e.g mysql user, apache user)