SMBD Runs as root

[Burkhard Weeber]

Hello Tom,

this is because of the trapdoor behaviour of setuid().
If you do setuid() from root to another user you can't go back. 
The user access rights are set correctly inside smbd.

Hope it helps...


Burkhard Weeber
C. Haushahn Automationssysteme GmbH & Co. KG
P/O Box 300668
D-70446 Stuttgart
Email: B.Weeber at haushahn-as.de

-----Original Message-----
From: samba at samba.org [mailto:samba at samba.org]On Behalf Of Tom Harris
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 11:51 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: SMBD Runs as root


Since loading 2.0.x of Samba, the SMBD process is always ran as "root" when 
users connect.  I just compiled Samba 2.0.3 on a AIX 4.2 to fix it 
according to the enhancement document.  SMBD is still running as "root" on 
2.0.3.  Does anybody have a work around for this.

Tom Harris
Denton CAD
tomh at iglobal.net