[squid-users] Running Squid fully as root

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 17 May 2018 at 22:24:40, Aaron Hall wrote:

> Greetings everyone.
> 
> Does anyone a "proper" way to run squid directly as "root" rather than the
> squid user on linux?

Why do you want to?

There are good reasons not to do this.  What is a good reason to want to do 
this?

> Basic internet searches don't appear to give much of an answer.

That may be a clue that it's not a good idea to try to do it :)


Antony.

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