squid "cache_effective_user" advantage and disadvantage

nima0102 · 03-03-2009, 04:14 PM

Hi
May one tell me about the advantage or disadvantage of utilizing "cache_effective_user" in squid ?because I do not know why this parameter there is

thanks for ant help or guidance

chitambira · 03-04-2009, 09:11 AM

Squid is designed to start as root and then very soon after, drop to the user/group specified by Cache_effective_user. This allows you to restrict, for security reasons, the permissions that Squid will have when operating. By default, Squid will operate as either nobody user and the nogroup group.