> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007, Amos Jeffries wrote: >> >> A while ago I patched my branch to allow configure-time setting >> (--with-cache-user=USER) of the squid run-time default user. >> >> I'm thinking this is worth adding to 3.0 before release. >> - it has been well tested now by me (~1 month use in production). >> - it reduces the patch level needed by OS maintainers >> - it only touches the squid.conf parser by making the default >> an autoconf macro instead of hard-coded. > > Not from me. What about calling it "default-cache-user" and >
I wondered about that. I don't exactly have a preference, just picked a shorter one. Though I suppose "--with-default-user" is better. > "default-cache-group" ? "group" is not involved/configurable that way. Squid pulls default group from host passwd file seperately. cf.data.pre explains how. Amos