# Passenger Processes Users

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-processes-users/187929>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 2, 2010, 12:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-processes-users/187929 "2010-05-02T12:05:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![maz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@maz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maz)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 12:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-processes-users/187929/1 "2010-05-02T12:05:25Z")

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Hi all,

I was wondering if it is possible to have passenger spawn each of its  
rails processes on a different user account.

Thanks,  
Maz

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**Author:** ![maz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@maz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maz)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-processes-users/187929/2 "2010-05-02T12:11:51Z")

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Am 01.05.2010 um 20:51 schrieb Maz:

> I was wondering if it is possible to have passenger spawn each of its  
> rails processes on a different user account.

Yes, a different user for each app, see the Passenger docs  
[http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#PassengerUserSwitching](http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#PassengerUserSwitching)

Felix