Re: cache_effective_user PROBLEM ?!?!

From: Natchu Vishnu Priya <vishnu@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 23:58:23 +0530 (IST)

On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Paul Southworth wrote:

>
> I also found this problem on a linux 2.0.x machine. I found that it was
> unable to set effective_user to nobody, but it was possible to set
> effective_user to any user other than nobody. I created a "squid" user
> which worked fine.
Well the problem is with linux.. try changing the uid of nobody...
default is 65535 thats -1.. chown or setuid do not work with this..
change it to 65534 and all will work fine...

>
> --Paul
>
-vishnu
Received on Sat Mar 08 1997 - 10:35:49 MST

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