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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