Hello,
I have a strange problem affecting samba-3.0.10-1.4E.12.2 on a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux AS release 4 system.
We have a multi-domain configuration here at University of Verona
(Italy). We use Samba as PDC for several faculties. Each faculty has its
own daemon instance and its own smb config file:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls /etc/samba/smb.*
/etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.giurisprudenza.conf
/etc/samba/smb.medicina.conf
/etc/samba/smb.economia.conf /etc/samba/smb.labfac.conf
/etc/samba/smb.motorie.conf
/etc/samba/smb.erasmus.conf /etc/samba/smb.lettere.conf
/etc/samba/smb.scienze.conf
/etc/samba/smb.formazione.conf /etc/samba/smb.lingue.conf
/etc/samba/smb.template.conf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
the problem is that sometimes we have one of the daemons running as the
'nobody' user ID or, worse, as normal user. Extract of a 'ps uax' command:
root 6018 0.0 0.1 11416 2816 ? S 12:44 0:00
/usr/sbin/smbd_motorie -D -s /etc/samba/smb.motorie.conf -l
/var/log/samba/motorie
vr002419 6090 0.0 0.1 11820 2960 ? S 12:47 0:00
/usr/sbin/smbd_economia -D -s /etc/samba/smb.economia.conf -l
/var/log/samba/economia
root 6091 0.0 0.1 11556 2940 ? S 12:47 0:00
/usr/sbin/smbd_economia -D -s /etc/samba/smb.economia.conf -l
/var/log/samba/economia
nobody 6093 0.0 0.1 11412 2152 ? S 12:47 0:00
/usr/sbin/smbd_economia -D -s /etc/samba/smb.economia.conf -l
/var/log/samba/economia
root 6106 0.0 0.0 5628 632 pts/2 R+ 12:47 0:00 grep smb
as you can see, process 6090 runs as user ID vr002419, while process
6093 runs as 'nobody'. User IDs are provided by an external LDAP server.
I'm just a deputy sysadmin for this server (the Big Guy's on holiday),
and I must admit I don't have much experience with Samba. I searched the
docs but I didn't find any reference to this behaviour.
Any hints on how to fix this situation?
Thanks a lot,
Guido
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Guido Gonzato, Ph.D. <guido dot gonzato at univr dot it> - Sysadmin
Universita' di Verona (Italy), Servizi Informatici di Ateneo
Via S. Francesco 22, 37129 Verona (Italy)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
-- Derek Bok
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