Re: [squid-users] about chroot

On 12/05/11 10:26, Carlos Manuel Trepeu Pupo wrote:
> I'm right now installing my Debian 6, next will be install Squid
> 3.1.12, so Amos, I suppose we are in peace, lol. I like to enhance my
> security with a chroot, but reading in internet the information it's
> no too much, only see this in all the comments:
>
> "if you use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
> get an error saying that Squid can not open the port."
>
> So I want to know if the effort will really worth, and how the hell I
> will reconfigure squid in chroot?

The default HTTP port is 3128 (outside the 0-1024 protected range).

We don't have much in the way of explanations on chroot in the wiki
docs. Improvements and extra details welcome:
   http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/ChrootJail

Amos

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