running as apache user does not work, why?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2019-08-16 at 00:43:49 +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:

 > remember, that "apache" is not a normal user. Unless you have
 > modified /etc/passwd, it has no login shell. It will not read
 > settings in shell startup files used by normal users and root,
 > hence it tries to use the TeX distribution from Fedora packages,
 > not TeX Live from TUG, as you can see from the paths. In addition,
 > it is not sufficient to define environment variables in such a way
 > that sudo will know about them.  When you later try to run TeX from
 > a script invoked by the Apache server, they will not work unless
 > you define them in you config file by SetEnv or PassEnv
 > directives. It is better not to run TeX directly but use a script
 > which will define the necessary variables including PATH and then
 > call TeX.

For security reasons I wouldn't run any program except Apache itself
as user apache.  The restrictions are on purpose.  Security is the
most important thing when running a web server and I don't see any
reason why one want to run TeX as user apache at all.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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