Re: Samba as nonroot

[Matt Skerritt <matt.skerritt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oops, I accidently sent this to Michael's own email, not to the list.  
Here it is again in the right place.

On 14/05/2008, at 9:48 AM, Michael Heydon wrote:
> lordm@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Im trying to run samba as a non-root user and I was wondering if  
> > this is
> > even possible
> No, it's not.
>
> > and if not what is preventing it from being ran as a normal
> > user??
> You couldn't bind to privileged ports would be the big one. You  
> might be able to modify the source so it runs on different ports  
> (although that would mean windows systems couldn't connect, you  
> might be able to coax another samba machine into it), you would  
> then have issues with permissions (you couldn't suid/sgid to the  
> connecting user).

Also, I think samba needs to be able to fork and execute.

It ought to be possible on Solaris 10 using privileges - I intend to  
test this myself in the next few weeks. (I currently have a DHCP  
server running successfully as a non-root user, binding to privileged  
ports etc etc).

I'll report my findings if anybody is actually curious.

--
Matt Skerritt
matt.skerritt@xxxxxxxxx



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