Re: [squid-users] Having trouble starting squid as non-root user

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Christoph Haas wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:50:12PM -1000, Carl Barton wrote:
> > I am having trouble starting squid as a non-root user. When I attempt
> > to do it I get the following.
> >
> > commBind: Cannot bind socket FD11 to 192.168.0.197:443 (13) Permission denied
>
> That's life. Privileged ports (below 1024) are only accessible for
> 'root'.

Most OS:es can be relaxed in this today... the "privileged ports"
"security scheme" has played it's role and is no longer relevant in modern
networking.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Jul 25 2004 - 16:26:56 MDT