Re: [squid-users] Having trouble starting squid as non-root user

Carl Barton wrote:

> I am having trouble starting squid as a non-root user. When I attempt to do
> it
> I get the following.
>
> commBind: Cannot bind socket FD11 to 192.168.0.197:443 (13) Permission denied
>
> Does anyone know the permission that I need to set for a non-root user to be
> able
> to start squid or do I just always have to start squid as the root user?

If you're setting up Squid to run as https, yes, you have to start Squid as
root,
because it's a root-priviledged port. You want to set up a cache user and
group,
and set cache_effective_user and cache_effective_group in squid.conf
accordingly.

Good luck!
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Received on Tue Jun 22 2004 - 23:45:19 MDT