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How to change ColdFusion user

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sillyworm

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Mar 9, 2005, 10:35:40 AM3/9/05
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I've recently installed CF on a RedHat machine. Initially, I installed using
the default 'nobody' user, but for some reason, every page request came back as
'File Not Found' by CF. I reinstalled and changed user to Apache, but I don't
know if this may present a problem if I secure some directories later. 1. How
do I change the user (without reinstalling) on Linux. 2. Any ideas why user
nobody might have failed (even reading files available to all users?) Thanks.

serat

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Mar 9, 2005, 6:23:49 PM3/9/05
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The only supported way to change the runtime user is to reinstall. I've never
seen someone successfully do it by editing the start script and
chmoding/chowning the ColdFusion tree. You might want to create a group having
the apache user and the coldfusion user, then chgrp -R the document root and
contents while making sure there is read access on the files for that group.

sillyworm

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Mar 10, 2005, 11:29:24 PM3/10/05
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Gotcha, thanks for the tip.
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