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SUEXEC

NAME
SYNOPSIS
SUMMARY
OPTIONS

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NAME

suexec - Switch user before executing external programs

SYNOPSIS

suexec - V

SUMMARY

suexec is used by the Apache HTTP Server to switch to another user before executing CGI programs. In order to achieve this, it must run as root . Since the HTTP daemon normally doesn’t run as root , the suexec executable needs the setuid bit set and must be owned by root . It should never be writable for any other person than root .

For further information about the concepts and the security model of suexec please refer to the suexec documentation (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/suexec.html).

OPTIONS

-V

If you are root , this option displays the compile options of suexec . For security reasons all configuration options are changeable only at compile time.

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