[squid-users] FATAL: getpwnam failed to find userid for effective user 'squid'

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 29.01.24 16:31, SND Tecnologia - Administração wrote:
>I'm getting the following message when starting squid:
[...]
>root at fwhcr:/etc/squid# systemctl status squid.service
[...]
>jan 29 16:27:10 fwhcr systemd[1]: Starting squid.service - Squid Web Proxy
>Server...
>jan 29 16:27:10 fwhcr squid[525742]: 2024/01/29 16:27:10| FATAL: getpwnam
>failed to find userid for effective user 'squid'

looks like your config file sets up squid to run under 'squid' user either 
in your squid config (cache_effective_user directive) or as default.

and user 'squid' does not exist on your system

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