Why we need the Process Owner

  • Resolved derethor

    (@derethor)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    Hello!

    Recently we moved our wordpress to a new VPS.

    We ran the wordfence diagnostics, and the test “process owner” failed.

    In our VPS, php functions posix_geteuid , posix_getpwuid are disabled, we can enable them, but we would like to be sure about this.

    so, why is this important? why is unsafe to hide the current process owner to PHP scripts?

    have a nice day

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  • Hi @derethor,
    We show the process owner in Diagnostics for debugging purposes. It helps when people are trying to solve file permission issues that sometimes occur. Our message that it failed is just an indicator of exactly that – we failed to check the process owner.

    In your case, you can just ignore that since you know why it’s happening.

    Hope that makes sense!

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