Yes.
--Kevin Fogleman
Glen wrote:
>
> Do you have a user named samba who has the proper permissions to run it?
>
> Dunno much, but I try anyway.
>
> Glen
>
> On Monday 23 July 2001 10:57, you wrote:
> > I'm having problems either understanding or using the
> > setuid bits in a file's permission mask.
> >
> > As I understand it, when the set-user-id part of the
> > permissions mask (4000) is set, the executable file
> > (in this case, the samba daemon) runs as the uid that
> > owns the file.
> >
> > What I'm trying to do is get samba to run as the
> > system user "samba" that I set up on my machine, in
> > order to prevent it from running as root while still
> > having access to all the necessary files. I've set
> > the file modes for smbd and nmbd as "4555" and set the
> > owner of both files as "samba". However, the programs
> > only seem to start when I execute them as the root
> > user (I tried running them as a regular user, and
> > although it didn't produce any error messages, it
> > didn't show up in the process list either), and on
> > running "ps aucx", I find out that they are running as
> > root, despite the fact that I set the setuid part of
> > the file mask.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > --Kevin Fogleman
> >
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