Re: cache_effective_user PROBLEM ?!?!

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 97 09:12:21 +0100

On Saturday 8 February 97, at 19 h 14, the keyboard of Colombo Matteo
<matteo@calcol.it> wrote:

> 97/03/08 18:52:45| Squid is not safe to run as root! If you must
...
> 97/03/08 18:52:45| 'cache_effective_user' option in the config file.
...
> cache_effective_user nobody nogroup

I had the problem on a Linux box where "nogroup" had GID -1. Using
another group (or, like suggested, changing the GID) worked.

May be Squid could output a better error message when setuid fails.
Received on Mon Mar 10 1997 - 00:21:42 MST

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