Henrik wrote: > Binding Squid to low ports is not a good reason why to have to start > Squid as root. There is no good reason why a proxy should need to run > on a low port, or why it should not be allowed to when started as a > non-root user on a dedicated proxy server.
I totally agree but some companies have been using the same port for many, many years (back in the Netscape Proxy days) and it is just fixed/hard-coded everywhere. So if you are dealing with an Enterprise wide change, it is not so easy to say "it's better to run squid on a high port and so we all need to change." However, as soon as our company migrates to their new ActiveDirectory/Exchange stuff and things settle down, I would like to work with the desktop guys to change the port but I point this out as I imagine other medium to large companies are also stuck with a low-numbered legacy port for historical reasons. adam
