Re: [Leap 16.0] apache2 group wwwrun or www?

18.07.2026 08:55, Robert Webb via openSUSE Users wrote:
>   On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:13:44 +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> Hi *,
> 
> Does that mean "Hi, all-of-you-peoples" ?  :-)
> 
>> on my Leap 16.0 web server apache is running as user wwwrun and group www, but there also exists a group named wwwrun.
>> Lately I got a few problems with Nextcloud, when updating modules, because some files had wwwrun:wwwrun set.
>> So I tried to find out, what the proper group settings might be, but really got confused:
>>
>> /etc/apache2/uid.conf
>>
>>           User wwwrun
>>           Group www
>>
>> /etc/passwd
>>
>> wwwrun:x:474:474:WWW daemon apache:/var/lib/wwwrun:/usr/sbin/nologin
>>
>> /etc/group
>>
>> www:x:479:wwwrun
>> wwwrun:!:474:
>>
>> /usr/lib/sysusers.d/system-user-wwwrun.conf
>>
>> # Type Name ID GECOS [HOME]
>> g www -
>> u wwwrun - "WWW daemon apache" /var/lib/wwwrun
>> m wwwrun www
>>
>> What is correct - www or wwwrun?
>> And why is it different in those configs?
> 
> The two *.conf files seem consistent, although I haven't checked
> documentation for them.  Don't they both indicate User: wwwrun and
> Group: www ?
> 
> So /etc/group has both www and wwwrun, group www with one user, wwwrun,
> and group wwwrun with no members (Is a user of the same name automatically
> a member of the group?).
> 

Yes, systemd-sysusers will automatically create a unique group with the 
same name as user name for each user added by the "u" directive and use 
it as the primary group for this user.