[SOLVED] nobody user for squid.

gardenair · 03-27-2011, 06:34 AM

I ma using red hat Linux 4 for squid 2.6. Squid binary is installed successfully.
I can view the squid file as

Code:

#vi  /usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf

Under it you can see cache_effective_user_nobody
If I take list of /usr/local/squid I can see that var used by root user and its group is also root.

Code:

[root@localhost squid]#ls -l
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2  root   root 4096  March  27 14:21 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2  root   root 4096  March  27 12:12 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2  root   root 4096  March  27 14:21 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 2  root   root 4096  March  27 14:21 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2  root   root 4096  March  27 14:21 share
drwxr-xr-x 2  root   root 4096  March  27 14:20 var

I want to change it for nobody user and nobody group.

When I try the command

Code:

[root@localhost root]# chown nobody:nobody var -R
chown: 'nbobody:nobody': invalid group
[root@localhost root]#

Kindly guide me that how can I fix it.
thanks
garden

bathory · 03-27-2011, 07:27 AM

Hi,

The command is

Code:

chown -R nobody:nobody var

i.e you need to put the -R switch before the user:group. Also check if the group actually exists.

Regards

gardenair · 03-29-2011, 12:56 AM

thanks for the reply. Well i have another system with same software configuration for squid. I have tried

Code:

[root@localhost root]# chown nobody:nobody var -R

and it work fine but when I use in my system it show me the same thing

Code:

chown: 'nbobody:nobody': invalid group

I also check in the /etc/passwd file that nobody user exits or not

Code:

[root@localhost root]# egrep -i "^nobody" /etc/passwd
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
[root@localhost root]#

"bathory" With the code which you have mention in your post I also try with it but no success.
I am upset with my system that why it is showing me invalid group

kindly help me
garden

bathory · 03-29-2011, 01:58 AM

Hi,

Are you sure the group nobody exists?

Code:

grep nobody /etc/group

You can create it by running:

Code:

groupadd nobody