How the heck can it work?
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Mon Jul 24 19:59:58 GMT 2000
Ron Alexander wrote:
>
> 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?
It is supposed to remember the uid of the user who logged
in. Works ok on UNIX.
jerry
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