At 09:54 PM 9/14/2000 +0300, Angelo Neacsu wrote:
>Hi.
>I had done the following command on my RH6.2 box:
>
>[root@ns1 tftp]# lsof /var/spool/mail/simona2
>COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
>ipop3d 3469 root 4u REG 3,6 14460 155069 /var/spool/mail/simona2
>
>[root@ns1 tftp]# ps uax|grep simona
>simona2 3469 0.0 0.2 1972 1028 ? S 21:40 0:00 ipop3d
>
>Why lsof reports USER=root, when the file is actualy accessed through
>ipop3d by user simona2 ?
Probably because ipop3d was executed as root and dropped privilages after
the login process was completed. That's how ipop3d uses privilaged port 110,
that confuses alot of people :-)
-Stan Bubrouski
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