Why there are many vsftpd processes running under nobody user?

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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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