On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 03:07:34PM +0530, vishesh kumar wrote: > My server running samba 3.0.28 on RHEL 5.2 > > command 'ps -aux | grep smbd' list running process in following format > > root 29334 0.0 0.1 15748 4384 ? S 13:41 0:03 smbd -D > 16777231 29413 0.0 0.0 15712 3880 ? S 13:42 0:00 smbd -D > ABP\anil 29414 0.0 0.0 15588 4076 ? S 13:42 0:00 smbd -D > 16777291 29440 0.0 0.1 15992 4292 ? S 13:43 0:00 smbd -D > 16777317 30281 0.0 0.0 15768 4040 ? S 13:59 0:00 smbd -D > 16777242 30475 0.0 0.0 15592 3896 ? S 14:03 0:00 smbd -D > > in first column, some process display root, some display uid number of user > and some display name of user. > I eager to know why smbd process run under diffrent users.
For normal operations smbd switches into the authenticated user context. From time to time, smbd needs to perform tasks that can only be done as root, so it switches back. File system access will always be done as user. Volker
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