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Security Features
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Module: core
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:Author: Jan Kneschke
:Date: $Date: 2004/08/01 07:01:29 $
:Revision: $Revision: 1.1 $

:abstract:
  lighttpd was developed with security in mind ...
  
.. meta::
  :keywords: lighttpd, security
  
.. contents:: Table of Contents

Description
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Running daemons as root will full privileges is a bad idea in general.
lighttpd runs best without any extra privileges and runs perfectly in chroot.

Change Root
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server.chroot = "..."

Drop root-privileges
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server.username = "..."
server.groupname = "..."

FastCGI
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fastcgi + chroot

Permissions
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::

  $ useradd wwwrun ...
