[plug] a question

[Christian]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:03:11AM +0800, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
 
> Having said that.
 
<snip>

> Given that your web server is configured correctly (a modern distro should
> ship configured right :)) that should be just about it.

Out of curiousity, how does this work given that Apache runs as non-root
and yet root permissions are needed to read /etc/shadow?  Is there some
setuid helper app that recent Apaches include?