TAG NAME chroot

Description Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing
Built Option
 Default
Usage
 chroot
Default
 none
Synopsis

Squid by default does not fully drop root privileges because it may be required during reconfigure.So use this directive to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after initializing . Squid only drops all root privilegies when chroot_dir is used. Without chroot_dir it runs as root with effective user nobody. This means, for example, that if you use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will get an error.

Example(s)
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