[Bush2000]

But what is does do is force services not to run as root/administrator. A default apache install will not run as root, nor will most Linux applications..

Nonsense. Neither Linux nor most applications force you to run in a non-root context. That's just pure BS on your part.

[N3WBI3]

Go set up a linux box with apache, start up the serrvice. DO a ps and tell me who httpd is running as ok..