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Unknown user 119 when I type ps

when I typed ps -aux i recived (...) root 2158 0.3 0.1 43860 6028 ? Sl Jan18 0:36 Passenger spawn server 119 2037 0.0 0.6 59152 26208 ? ...
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How do I kill processes in Ubuntu?

How do I kill all processes running by my own non-root account? I have some spinning smbd processes that I caused from my windows machine and so I telnetted into the linux server and I want to kill ...
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Can issetuid() be cleared for a child process? [closed]

I have a wrapper script A which is calling program B. A must be invoked as root so some initial setup can happen. After that, A calls setuid() and setgid() to reduce its own privileges, for safety and ...