[squid-users] Need assistance debugging Squid error: ssl_ctrd helpers crashing too quickly
Yuri
yvoinov at gmail.com
Mon Sep 11 19:41:32 UTC 2017
Well. Let's check more deep.
Show me parameter sslcrtd_program in your squid.conf
12.09.2017 1:23, Rohit Sodhia пишет:
> Unfortunately, no luck yet. Thank you again for your help before.
>
> I found that the user squid and group squid existed already, so I added
>
> cache_effective_user squid
> cache_effective_group squid
>
> to my config (first two lines), made sure /var/lib/ssl_db and it's
> contents were set to squid:squid and restarted the service, but I'm
> still getting the same error :(
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Rohit Sodhia <sodhia.rohit at gmail.com
> <mailto:sodhia.rohit at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I'll try that immediately, thanks! I appreciate all your advice;
> hopefully I won't have to reach out again :p
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Yuri <yvoinov at gmail.com
> <mailto:yvoinov at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I'm not Linux fanboy, but modern squid never runs as root. So,
> most probably it runs as nobody user.
>
> Ah, yes:
>
> # TAG: cache_effective_user
> # If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
> # UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to
> change
> # to UID of nobody.
> # see also; cache_effective_group
> #Default:
> # cache_effective_user nobody
>
> # TAG: cache_effective_group
> # Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
> # (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
> # from the groups membership.
> #
> # If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
> # the group memberships of the effective user then set this
> # to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
> # all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
> # and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
> # root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
> # group.
> #
> # This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
> # Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
> # user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
> #Default:
> # Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
>
> As documented. :)
>
> AFAIK best solution is create non-privileged group & user
> (like squid/squid) and set both this parameters explicity.
>
> Then change owner recursively on SSL cache to this user.
>
>
> 12.09.2017 0:36, Rohit Sodhia пишет:
>> Neither of those values are set in my config. Even though I'm
>> not using squid for caching, I need those values? They aren't
>> set in the default configs either.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Yuri <yvoinov at gmail.com
>> <mailto:yvoinov at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Most probably you squid runs as another user than squid.
>>
>> Check your squid.conf for cache_effective_user and
>> cache_effective_group values.
>>
>> Then change SSL cache permissions to this values. Should
>> work.
>>
>>
>> 12.09.2017 0:30, Rohit Sodhia пишет:
>>> Thanks for the feedback! I just used yum (it's a CentOS
>>> 7 VB) and it set it up like that. I changed the owner
>>> and group to squid:squid and tried restarting squid, but
>>> still get the same errors. I thought to run the command
>>> again, but this time it says
>>>
>>> /usr/lib64/squid/ssl_crtd: Cannot create /var/lib/ssl_db
>>>
>>> If this folder has incorrect permissions are there
>>> possibly other permission issues?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Yuri <yvoinov at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:yvoinov at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Here you root of problem.
>>>
>>> Should be (on my setups):
>>>
>>> # ls -al /var/lib/ssl_db
>>> total 326
>>> drwxr-xr-x 3 squid squid 5 Sep 5 00:53 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x 8 root other 8 Sep 5 00:53 ..
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 squid squid 454 Sep 11 23:37 certs
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 squid squid 280575 Sep 11 23:37 index.txt
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 squid squid 7 Sep 11 23:37 size
>>>
>>> I.e. Squid has no access to SSL cache dir structures.
>>>
>>>
>>> 12.09.2017 0:23, Rohit Sodhia пишет:
>>>> total 8
>>>> drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 48 Sep 11 12:42 .
>>>> drwxr-xr-x. 32 root root 4096 Sep 11 12:42 ..
>>>> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Sep 11 12:42 certs
>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Sep 11 12:42 index.txt
>>>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1 Sep 11 12:42 size
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Yuri
>>>> <yvoinov at gmail.com <mailto:yvoinov at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Show output of
>>>>
>>>> ls -al /var/lib/ssl_db
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 12.09.2017 0:21, Rohit Sodhia пишет:
>>>>> Yes, but telling me it's crashing
>>>>> unfortunately doesn't help me figure out why
>>>>> or how to fix it. I've run the command it
>>>>> suggests but it doesn't help. I'm
>>>>> unfortunately not an ops guy familiar with
>>>>> this kind of stuff; I don't see anything on
>>>>> how to figure out what to do about it.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Yuri
>>>>> <yvoinov at gmail.com <mailto:yvoinov at gmail.com>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It tells you what's happens.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 11.09.2017 23:50, Rohit Sodhia пишет:
>>>>> > (ssl_crtd): Uninitialized SSL
>>>>> certificate database directory:
>>>>> > /var/lib/ssl_db. To initialize, run
>>>>> "ssl_crtd -c -s /var/lib/ssl_db".
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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