[Samba] When is smbd running as root, and when as a mortal?

[Gerald Carter]

On 5 Mar 2002 ard at waikato.ac.nz wrote:

> 
> Out of the 150 smbd processes on my server at the moment, 137 are
> running as root and 13 as the connecting user.  "smbstatus" and utmp
> give all the right info but it would be nice if "ps" agreed.
> 
> Out of curiosity, when does smbd run as root and when does it run as its
> connecting user?

Short answer is that that smbd swaps to the user uid when 
servicing an smb command that requires it.  See the 
smb_messages[256] array in smbd/process.c.  Otherwise it runs as root.













cheers, jerry
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