[Samba] smbd owner

[ludovic.verdot-atos at transport.alstom.com]

Hello

I'm currently running samba 2.0.7 on solaris 2.8 (sparc)

When i look at the owner of the smb processes, i see that  root is the
owner of most of the smbd processes.
But some are owned by a specific user .

basilic# ps -ef|grep  smb
    root  1082     1  0   Jan 09 ?        0:30 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
-s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root  9609  1082  0   Jan 10 ?        0:26 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
-s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root  1254  1082  0 09:46:00 ?        0:04 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
-s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
user1  9328  1082  0   Jan 29 ?        5:10 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
-s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
user2  1912  1082  0 10:40:21 ?        0:14 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
-s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root   435  1082  0 07:44:17 ?        0:03 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
-s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 13569  1082  0 15:09:30 ?        0:38 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
-s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root   894  1082  0 08:32:33 ?        0:01 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
-s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root  9635  1082  0   Jan 31 ?        0:22 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
-s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 13556  1082  0 15:08:06 ?        0:00 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
-s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root  1066  1082  0 09:10:58 ?        1:13 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 16041  1082  0   Jan 30 ?        0:02 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
user3 14101  1082 12 15:46:01 ?       21:30 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root  1554  1082  0 10:15:17 ?        0:00 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 19527  1082  0   Jan 15 ?        0:02 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 10829  1082  0 11:22:41 ?        2:53 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root  1240  1082  0 09:42:02 ?        0:02 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 10012  1082  0   Jan 31 ?        0:05 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
  nobody  2320  1082  0 11:01:33 ?        0:09 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root  1007  1082  0 09:02:27 ?        0:01 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
 user4 16330  1082  6   Jan 28 ?       744:42 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 26125  1082  0   Jan 29 ?        0:01 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 10990  1082  0   Jan 28 ?        0:07 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 16993  1082  0 18:24:35 ?        1:38 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 10957  1082  0 11:29:48 ?        0:06 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 23878  1082  0   Jan 24 ?        0:01 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root 10320  1082  0   Jan 31 ?        1:02 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
   user5  1299  1082  0 09:50:30 ?        0:10 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
    root  2744 11109  0 11:12:21 pts/4    0:00 grep smb
  nobody  2739  1082  0 11:11:42 ?        0:00 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D -s/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf

I vwould like to know why all smbd processes  are not owned by the user starting a new samba connection ?

thank

Ludovic.

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