[Samba] RE: Samba processes

[Javid Abdul-AJAVID1]

-----Original Message-----
From: Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 [mailto:abduljavid at motorola.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:18 AM
To: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Samba processes



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