[DRE-maint] [Bug 696271] Re: Insufficient privileges for Passenger spawned application

[Simon Bazley]

I'd be surprised if passenger would allow itself to run as root.
Anecdotal evidence suggests it isn't as on my setup, before I added the
PassengerDefaultUser record to passenger.conf my setup was complaining
that it didn't have write access to /etc/redmine/default/session.yml,
which was owned by root.  I changed it to be owned by www-data and it
still complained, but adding the PassengerDefaultUser setting fixed it.

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Title:
  Insufficient privileges for Passenger spawned application

Status in “redmine” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: redmine

  If Redmine is hosted by Apache with Passenger, Passenger spawns
  Redmine as user=nobody which can not see the configuration files in
  /etc/redmine/default. The following line must be added to /etc/apache2
  /mods-available/passenger.conf:

    PassengerDefaultUser www-data