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=================
Security Features
=================

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Module: core
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:Author: Jan Kneschke
:Date: $Date: 2004/08/29 09:44:53 $
:Revision: $Revision: 1.2 $

:abstract:
  lighttpd was developed with security in mind ...
  
.. meta::
  :keywords: lighttpd, security
  
.. contents:: Table of Contents

Description
===========

Limiting POST requests
----------------------



::

   server.max-request-size = <kbyte>

System Security
---------------

Running daemons as root with full privileges is a bad idea in general.
lighttpd runs best without any extra privileges and runs perfectly in chroot.

Change Root
```````````

server.chroot = "..."

Drop root privileges
````````````````````

server.username = "..."
server.groupname = "..."

FastCGI
```````

fastcgi + chroot

Permissions
```````````

::

  $ useradd wwwrun ...