[Samba] samba won't give up root

[David 'TheCubic' Carlson]

Ah, i think i was mistaken in one of my definitions in smb.conf.  The
thing is, the server where i work will change usernames, but not the one
i'm talking about, even with the same binaries, so i'm confused.  Confused
and paranoid.

-dave 

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Andrew Bartlett (abartlet at pcug.org.au) yapped:

> David Carlson wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, I'm using the latest version of Samba in (kind-of) an embedded
> > environment, which means 'glibc, but no shadow/pam/md5'
> > 
> > my problem is is that samba doesn't give up root priviledges.  I connect as
> > an unpriviliged user, but the smbd associated with the connection is still
> > associated with root.  Has anyone had this problem? It's very undesirable,
> > as all the access controls are pretty much useless.
> 
> Can you show the file access occuring as root?  Samba now idles as root,
> rather than as the last connected user.  The SMB protocol allows any
> number of users to connect on one TCP/IP socket (and therefore one
> smbd), and we often have to do things as root.  As a performance measure
> we therefore idle as root.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
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