ons 2009-02-11 klockan 14:56 +1300 skrev Amos Jeffries:

> WHY:
>   * it's a security breach.

Why?

>   * it's the source of many permissions annoyances.

Yes.

>   * the setting is still widely recommended in online how-to's

Yes, and often for the wrong reasons.

>   * current Squid-3+ are perfectly capable of pulling correct user/group 
> pairs from the OS or being built with a distro preferred user other than 
> 'none'.

Yes.

> HISTORY:
>   If I recall correctly, the only holdback we had last time this was 
> discussed was that certain setups and winbind needed it to work.

Not sure.

> That has since changed with the information about the winbind priv group 
> being available to Squid.

?

> DESIRED OUTCOME:
>   I'd like to obsolete it in 3.2 unless there is another compelling 
> reason to keep it?

I don't see why it should be dropped.

> Failing that, I'd like to come up with a setup of parameters we can 
> detect and severely restrict its usage. Makign noisy log and startup 
> warnings when abused.

How is this directive abused?

If you set it to something then you don't get the benefit of multiple
group membership of the user account.


A +/- 0 from me.

Regards
Henrik

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