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ugotchi
ugotchi

Reputation: 1013

default password for apache XAMPP user daemon?

In my httpd.conf file, my apache is running as user daemon, group daemon. I don't recall setting this account up with a password, and a blank password doesn't let me in. Does anyone know how I gain access to it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2560

Answers (1)

cormpadre
cormpadre

Reputation: 127

This is not best practice, better option would be:

1.Create your content

2.Move it to the webroot with sudo, (sudo mv /currentpath /webrootpath)

3.Then set the webserver user as the owner with sudo chown -R daemon: daemon /path/to/your/webroot

In order to actually access the daemon user you would need to set a password with:

  1. sudo passwd daemon also will likely need to set a shell for the user as it is NOT supposed to be logged in (or have many permissions):

  2. chsh -s /bin/bash daemon or edit the /etc/passwd file entry for the user to set shell directly.

...Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 1

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