suexec.8 revision b99dbaab171d91e1b664397cc40e039d0c087c65
suexec 8 "March 1998"
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NAME
suexec - Switch User For Exec
SYNOPSIS
No synopsis for usage, because this program is used internally by Apache only.

DESCRIPTION
suexec is the "wrapper" support program for the suEXEC behaviour for Apache. It is run from within Apache automatically to switch the user when an external program has to be run under a different user. For more information about suEXEC see the document `Apache suEXEC Support' under http://www.apache.org/docs/suexec.html .

SEE ALSO
httpd(8) .