Re: [squid-users] Squid install

mån 2003-05-26 klockan 13.35 skrev Marc Elsen:

> > I dont know what userid or groupid to use can anyone help with this
>
> You can use any userid and groupid ; the idea is that this belongs
> to the 'unix account' squid is running on , hence the cache dir(s)
> should have the same ownership.
>
> On my system I created an account named 'squid' and a group called
> 'squid'.
>
> Squid runs with uid/gid 'squid' , and the cache dir(s) belong to this
> account specs.

And Squid knows this userid by either

a) the user Squid was started as, if not root.

b) cache_effective_user in squid.conf, if Squid was started as root

Regards
Henrik

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