Name

PRXY-533 — Application cannot be switched to unknown user

Severity

D (debug), C (critical)

Message text

PROXY-USER %s not known

Description

The application can be started by root to allow binding of privileged ports. For security reasons, after binding and before the first connection from a client is accepted, the user (and group) identity is switched to an unprivileged user. If the user name is not known (not registered in the system user database), the identity cannot be switched.

See also

logging(7)

Authors

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