Why there are many vsftpd processes running under nobody user?
Issue
- Why there are many
vsftpd
processes running under nobody user?
[user@localhost ~]$ ps -aef|grep vsftpd
nobody 521 31256 0 07:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
root 525 521 0 07:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
nobody 551 31256 0 07:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
root 562 551 0 07:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
nobody 613 31256 0 07:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
root 615 613 0 07:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
nobody 619 31256 0 07:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
nobody 623 619 0 07:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
- vsftpd
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