In the general case it is arguably a bad idea. However, in bartender1382's specific situation of wanting a user to own the apache processes it is fine, IMHO. Both users should never login and so should have /bin/false or similar as their login shell anyway. They can also happily share the same home dir.

Note that bartender1382 has given no background as to why on earth they want to do this in the first place. It does seem like making work for no good reason when there is a perfectly valid single-use user already dedicated to apache in pretty much every O/S. It sounds very much like an XY problem to me.

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In reply to Re^3: I need a user just for Perl script run from web browsers by hippo
in thread I need a user just for Perl script run from web browsers by bartender1382

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