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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Apache main process runs as root. When it receives a request, it spawns a child process that doesn't run as root. PHP runs as the same user as the Apache child process.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Or PHP runs in its own fastcgi like process under a different account.