[PATCH] showing username in ps

Tim Potter tpot at samba.org
Mon Jan 28 00:28:03 GMT 2002


On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:53:46AM +0100, Ph. Marek wrote:

> >Do you mean you patched smbd?  Not much of a chance we will revert to the
> >old behavior, but I would be willing to look through your patch.
> >Thanks.
> Well, in the old 1.9.18 days the username could be seen from ps in the
> username column. But as this behaviour changed, I'm doing my best to get
> something similar.

It still does - but only if a smb packet has been received within the last
couple of seconds (maybe it's more like 10-15 seconds) that requires 
processing in the user's security context.  Then it switches back to root.


Tim.




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