Restarting inetd picks up environment, passed on via telnet Post: 302660513

Sponsored Content

Operating Systems Solaris Restarting inetd picks up environment, passed on via telnet Post 302660513 by mde on Friday 22nd of June 2012 02:49:09 PM

06-22-2012

Registered User

Restarting inetd picks up environment, passed on via telnet

Curious problem I just encountered: needing to restart inetd, I su'd to root and executed the usual commands

Code:

# /etc/init.d/inetsvc stop
# /etc/init.d/inetsvc start

Shortly after this, users started reporting unexpected behaviour after logging in with telnet, and it turned out they all had environment variables set to values that only I would use.

It appears (at least, this is the only explanation I have been able to come up with) that inetd inherited my environment (carried over via su) when I executed the 'inetsvc start' script, and telnet, and thence the login shell, then also inherited that environment.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a bug? Or should I have restarted the service some other way?

mde

View Public Profile for mde

Find all posts by mde

8 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Inetd and security

Ok, So I've been lazy over the past 3 years with the SCO server I maintain, as it just primarily hosts my private networked proprietary software, until now. We have dedicated net access, in which the SCO server is not setup for and not going to be setup to connect to the internet by any direct...

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

refreshing inetd

Hi I have a question, what is the purpose of this command and what will it do "refresh -s inetd" Thanks in Advance Swaraj

3. HP-UX

inetd process

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi All , I have a client an server among which i want to make the server an inetd process. I have enries in etc/services and etc/inetd.conf The enries looks like below etc/services servername 5551/tcp...

4. IP Networking

Error inetd

Hi , I need help, today I restarted the server, when the machine was up, it had been to writte in the file osmlog that : "inetd: talk/udp: bind: Address already in use" This message appears in ten minutes every time. Why ? Thanks.

5. Solaris

cannot telnet after restarting server

Dear guys, Pls help me this case. I telnet normally to Solaris. After restarting it manually, I can only console, cannot telnet from my latop although I can ping it. I checked /etc/default/login /usr/sbin/in.telnetd /etc/inet/inetd.conf All these files are the same. I don't see telnet...

6. Solaris

Inetd problem

Hi All, When i am trying to restart the inetd daemon it throughing error. Please find the message and tell me what i need to do ? Apr 7 22:57:37 HYDOHS01 inetd: ISTATE not in environment Apr 7 22:57:41 HYDOHS01 inetd: stop: No such file or directory Apr 7 22:58:01 HYDOHS01 inetd: ...

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

loop picks up password for 2 entry...how to avoid that ?

hello all, i am trying to find a better to do what i am doing right now... i have a file called sidlist...which has my database_name and password to the respective database so something like below.. file is called sidlist and entry is below... test, abc123 kes12, abcd12 pss, abcd1234...

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

From where mv command picks

Hi, I am using mv command for moving file mv /tmp/test /tmp/test_bkp but I am getting change from notrun to 0 failed: Could not find command 'mv' I am using mv command in puppet language, so generally we use like below command => "/usr/bin/awk '/search/ { print $1}' /tmp/test ...

LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

rdate

rdate(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 rdate(1M)

NAME

       rdate - set system date from a remote host

SYNOPSIS

       rdate hostname

DESCRIPTION

       rdate sets the local date and time from the hostname given as an argument. You must have the authorization solaris.system.date on the local
       system. Typically, rdate is used in a startup script.

       The inetd daemon responds to rdate requests. To enable inetd response, the lines invoking the time command in inetd.conf must not  be  com-
       mented out.

USAGE

       The rdate command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWrcmdc 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       inetd(1M), inetd.conf(4), attributes(5), ip6(7P)

SunOS 5.10							    15 Feb 2001 							 rdate(1M)