RE: [squid-users] Allow normal user to run squid reconfigure command

Dear

By rwx means i have assign user read / write / execute rights on cachemanager.cgi file but still i am not able to run squid -k recon .it shows me an error which i pasted below.

Merrymax

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> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 21:17:12 +1300
> From: squid3_at_treenet.co.nz
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] Allow normal user to run squid reconfigure command
>
> On 07.03.2012 21:04, Maqsood Ahmad wrote:
> > Hello Sebastian,
> >
> > Thanks for the help, i have allowed the user to rwx on cachemgr but
> > did not have any successes.
>
> rwx? It is not a file permission.
>
> Manager access is set via "cachemgr_passwd reconfigure blah" in
> squid.conf where blah is the password needed to perform the reconfigure
> action. When Squid receives and HTTP request with the right URL and
> password it reconfigures itself.
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/CacheManager
>
> The cachemgr.cgi web interface is just a way to send the HTTP request
> to Squid.
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ManagerCgiTool
>
> If command line access is easier for them the squidclient tool can
> perform the manager requests.
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidClientTool
>
> Amos
                                               
Received on Wed Mar 07 2012 - 09:22:37 MST