smbd processes owned by user not root

[John Blair]

> We are running Samba 1.9.17p4 on Solaris 2.6.
> 
> smbd and nmbd are spawned by inetd.
> 
> Suddenly, 12 smbd processes were spawned belonging to a non-root user.
> 
> Non-root users cannot login to this fileserver.
> 
> Has anyone seen this?  How can we prevent this?

Who are they owned by?  What do you mean that non-root users cannot login
to this fileserver?  Do you mean that all users log in as *root*?  I'm
assuming I'm misunderstanding you because this would be extremely foolish.

If you can describe what's going on in a little more detail I (or someone
else on the list) may be able to help.

 -john.

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