Question
Owner of NGINX process
Hi there!
I’ve just installed nginx and wondering why there are two processes.
One process is owned by root
, the other one is owned by www-data
.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
7017 root 20 0 124972 1432 80 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 nginx
7018 www-data 20 0 125332 3168 1588 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.00 nginx
I didn’t changed the nginx.conf
yet, so the configured user is still www-data
.
Is it correct that one process is owned by root
? Is that a security risk I need to worry about?
Thank you very much!
- Matthias
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