On Wednesday 04 September 2002 01.27, Rahul Amaram-RollNo.2000086
wrote:
> I have a small doubt. Is it possible to configure, install and then
> run squid as non-root. I have tried this out but when I ran "squid
> -z" i keep getting a message that the group 'nogroup' does not
> exist. Now as I am not the root, I cannot add a group. So is there
> any other way??? If not, do anyone of u know of any good proxy
> server which can be run as non-root?
Yes, I do this all the time during development..
For older Squid versions you may need to set
cache_effective_user/group to the user (and group) who should run
Squid. In Squid-2.5 and later this is no longer needed.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Sep 03 2002 - 18:45:52 MDT
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