Re: Safe to run squid_user=root ?

2009-06-17 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:48:17 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > www/squid30 sets up an rc.d startup script that includes > >squid_user=${squid_user:-squid} > > This makes it impossible to get squid to listen on a port lower than > 1024. > > If I specify > > squid_user=root > > in my rc.

Re: Safe to run squid_user=root ?

2009-06-16 Thread Christian Walther
2009/6/17 Jeffrey Goldberg : > www/squid30 sets up an rc.d startup script that includes > >  squid_user=${squid_user:-squid} > > This makes it impossible to get squid to listen on a port lower than 1024. > > If I specify > >  squid_user=root > > in my rc.conf will I be doing something stupid?  Does

Safe to run squid_user=root ?

2009-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
www/squid30 sets up an rc.d startup script that includes squid_user=${squid_user:-squid} This makes it impossible to get squid to listen on a port lower than 1024. If I specify squid_user=root in my rc.conf will I be doing something stupid? Does squid appropriately drop privileges af