Amos Jeffries wrote > On 2/02/2016 3:22 a.m., alesironi wrote: >> L.P.H. van Belle wrote >>> Just a question.. >>> >>> You are using debian, i did say.. >>> >>> chmod root:proxy ( proxy is the default squid user in debian ) >>> >>> i see.. >>> chown root:squid /etc/squid3/ldappass.txt >>> >>> try again with >>> chown root:proxy /etc/squid3/ldappass.txt >>> >>> Greetz, >>> >>> Louis >> >> It was probably my typo, anyway I reconfigured as you said again. >> Same result. If I use SUDO (or if I configure to use the password in >> clear) >> it proceeds, but with the same error: invalid request: No Username >> >> Looks like an error in the syntax I used.... >> > > > Maybe. But at the very least it is clear you do not understand what > "sudo" is or how to use it for non-root user accounts. > > Running any command "sudo X" will run the command X as *root* user. > > That is bad, both because its running a sensitive networking process > with root privileges. And because its running a test very different to > what we are telling you needs to be run. > > Running this: > sudo -u squid X > > or this: > su squid && X > > will run the command X as user 'squid' instead of user 'root'. That is > the test we are writing about to figure out what the problem(s) are. > > > Amos > _______________________________________________ > squid-users mailing list > squid-users@.squid-cache > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users Thanks for the clarification, my technical base comes from Windows OS and I wrongly assumed that SUDO was the equivalet of Windows UAC (User Account Control), or running a process with elevated privileges of the securit context in which I'm working (which is not exatly the same; as you said SUDO X means using root). I'll investigate that as well. -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/ext-ldap-group-acl-not-working-tp4675816p4675844.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
