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Re: [cobalt-security] Qube 3 Squid runs as Open Relay Proxy by default



On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:44:48AM -0700, Tim Dunn wrote:
> Yah, one of the elided parts was that he tried doing some edits, but
> something on the was was automagically prepending "Allow all" or
> something equally rapeable to the squid.conf.

That kind of crap is why I'm _not_ at all partial to mutant,
undocumented sysadmin tools. :/  I'm sorry he was being bit...

> In my view, a $100
> investment (and a small amount of setup time) is a good stop-gap
> until he can figure out what's doing the unwanted edits.

True enough, in this case.  It's increasingly been my habit to
rebuild machines with actual tools, though.  I cannot _believe_ how
much time I waste trying to figure out why my valid modifications
to config files aren't being preserved...

If you want to wade into a discussion of time/money issues...

> 
> tim
> 

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