On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:06:48 +0300, Adrian Buciuman <adibuciuman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm using squid 2.6 on Centos 5.3 > > I've seen that the squid process keeps a saved user id of root (real > and effective uid are that of user squid). Is this normal? How can I > change it, and make squid give up root privileges completely? > > Thanks, > > Adrian Buciuman squid.conf chroot option http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/cfgman/chroot.html WARNING: This will prevent many operations such as closest-source discovery, IDENT, ARP, interception mode and reverse proxy mode. Which require system networking resources only accessible with root privileges to startup/restart/reconfigure. Amos
