Re: Squid not running as configured

Jim Chivas wrote:

> The ncsa routines are running as nobody but squid parent and child is
> running as root.

The child Squid process should run with

 UID: root
eUID: nobody
sUID: root

If you want it to fully drop root privilegies either don't start it as
root, or use the chroot_dir directive of Squid-2.3. (available as a
patch to Squid-2.2 from http://squid.sourceforge.net/hno/squid/)

Squid by default does not fully drop root privilegies because it may be
required during reconfigure.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker