Is it bad that one of my apache instances is running as root
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31275 www-data 15 0 283m 23m 13m S 0 3.1 0:00.47 apache2
31272 www-data 15 0 280m 21m 13m S 0 2.8 0:00.23 apache2
31258 www-data 15 0 281m 19m 11m S 0 2.6 0:00.39 apache2
31286 www-data 16 0 284m 19m 8472 S 2 2.5 0:00.06 apache2
31217 www-data 15 0 281m 19m 10m S 0 2.5 0:00.84 apache2
31281 www-data 15 0 280m 17m 9.9m S 0 2.3 0:00.31 apache2
31282 www-data 15 0 280m 17m 9960 S 0 2.2 0:00.32 apache2
31289 www-data 18 0 280m 15m 8360 S 2 2.1 0:00.05 apache2
31285 www-data 15 0 280m 14m 7448 S 3 1.9 0:00.09 apache2
31276 www-data 15 0 280m 14m 7268 S 0 1.9 0:00.05 apache2
29478 root 18 0 279m 12m 7068 S 0 1.7 0:03.04 apache2
31287 www-data 15 0 279m 7392 1260 S 0 0.9 0:00.00 apache2
Is it bad that one of my apache instances is running as root?
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It needs root in order to bind the privileged port (default: 80), and to complete other preliminary activities.
