How the heck can it work?

[Ron Alexander]

I am trying to set the smb.conf permissions to 640 as recommended. When I
do, I still have FULL access to all the swat functions. I believe it is due
to the fact that swat is started from inetd and the inetd.conf has a user of
root (as documented in the doc'n I have found so far)

Is it actually possible to have swat run as root and get LESS access to the
file?

TIA,
Ron

p.s. This is running on Stratus VOS(POSIX.1), not *nix.