Allow numeric user notation for proxy.config.admin.user_id
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Key: TS-353
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-353
Project: Traffic Server
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Documentation
Affects Versions: 2.1.1
Reporter: Mladen Turk
Assignee: Miles Libbey
New way of specifying the user_id has been added.
Currently the proxy.config.admin.user_id allows only specifying user names.
Since 2.1.1 if the user_id is prefixed with pound character (#) the remaining
of the
string is considered to be numeric user id.
If the user_id equals '#-1' this would cause the trafficserver to not change
the user
during startup.
Setting user_id to 'root' or to '#0' is now forbidden because of security
reasons.
Trying to do so, will cause the traffic_server fatal failure.
However there are two ways to bypass that restriction.
The first one is by specifying -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE in CXXFLAGS during
compilation
The second is setting user_id=#-1 and starting trafficserver under root account.
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