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Hi Ahmad,

I still don't understand properly. Do you want to run Squid as your own nonprivileged user, "ahmad" or "stinger", instead of the "squid" or "webproxy" user that is the usual in distros? That is easy, but trying to sed squid to <something else> in the codebase is likely to fail, imagine trying to do that with the Linux kernel!

If that is the case, just set the user and group in the squid.conf and make sure that said user/group has the right privileges to access the various directories and files it needs. No problem at all, I've done it myself.

There should be no need to edit all the source code and recompile for this. Then for "hiding" your proxy use there are the other parameters in squid.conf that remove HTTP headers (but by doing do, be aware it's an RFC violation and hiding that your clients are behind a proxy can cause lots of issues, no. 1 being that Google will keep telling you that you're launching a DoS attack). It may also have legal implications in some countries, especially if you're forwarding for devices/clients not owned by you or your organisation.

I'm just curious as to why you have so little detail of what you need in this request when other posts you have made have supplied much more detail, logs, etc.

I'm sorry if this is all down to a language barrier and English is not your first language.  I've posted to German mailing lists when I only did 2 years of it at school and it's really hard!

I hope this helps you,

Best regards

Alex


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