Safe to run squid_user=root ?

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

www/squid30 sets up an rc.d startup script that includes

   squid_user=${squid_user:-squid}

This makes it impossible to get squid to listen on a port lower than  
1024.

If I specify

  squid_user=root

in my rc.conf will I be doing something stupid?  Does squid  
appropriately drop privileges after binding to a socket?

The background for this is that I want to set up a proxy to listen on  
port 70 (yes that is gopher).  There is a bit of a move afoot to set  
up proxies to allow people from Iran to get to sites like twitter and  
facebook which are currently being blocked by the Iranian government.   
They have just started blocking things to destination ports like 8080  
and 3128.

FreeBSD 7-STABLE, www/squid30

Cheers,

-j

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Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/