Changing PHP user from "root"

[KendersPlace]

I am running php 4.2 on RedHat 8.0 with Apache.

I have parsed through the environment variables on a test page, and I see that php seems to be running as "root".

Ex:

$ENV['USER']=root
$ENV['USERNAME']=root

I will be adding some file level access in this application, and I want PHP to run as a linux user that I have set up that only has access to certain directories.

How do I change what user PHP runs as? I have looked all through the /etc/php.ini file and also looked around in the php manual, and I can't find it anywhere.

Thanks.

[khaldryck]

not really sure, bu t i think php is executed by the user executing apache.

so maybe it's your apache configuration you should change to the user.