Re: [squid-users] When must squid be started as root

"Gary Price (ICT)" wrote:
>
> Hi
> I notice that enter_suid is used when doing IPF_TRANSPARENT
> proxying. Does this mean that squid must be started as root
> when doing transparent proxying?

Depends on the permissions of the nat device.. by default only root is
allowed to open the nat device for reading, but if you give the user
Squid is running as permission to open this device starting Squid as
root should not be needed.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Apr 04 2003 - 00:59:29 MST