[Samba] Samba processes

Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 abduljavid at motorola.com
Tue Feb 18 17:18:00 GMT 2003


Hi 
Am noticing smbd processes are running as root and occassionally I see a
child process as userid

Just curios under what circumstances the smbd runs as user id process ( unix
id ) and running as root is a security risk?

Thanks in advance

-Abdul


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