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I am trying to secure my Apache and MySQL from hackers. Please tell me how. Questions are inside [closed]

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http://serverfault.com – Possible Duplicate: Secure LAMP server for production use I don't know how this will affect my server but my apache service is running under root. Is this dangerous? Then I have created a user in MySQL. The new user have this grant options: SHOW GRANTS for newuser; GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'newuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*newuserpass' GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `newuser`.* TO 'newuser'@'%' My questions: What are the consequences of running apache under root How can I change the ownership of apache? The new user's have all the privileges, and any ip address can connect remo (HowTos)