SUMMARY: env vars being forced to specific values only for telnet connections
2007-12-24 20:47:00
the comp.unix.solaris NG who both hit the nail on the head first time.
For some reason the local admins had restarted inetd rather than HUPing
it when the very modifying /etc/inetd.conf. They had been good and su-ed
to root (but not 'su -') thus root had all the users env vars. This was
passed to inetd on there restart of inetd and inetd in turn was passing
it to in.telnetd each time.....
So I logged in as root at the console and stopped/restarted inetd and
voila everything is fine.
--
Martin
Martin Hepworth wrote:
> Hi all
>
> got an odd one...on solaris 2.6 sparc
>
> when everyone is telnetting to one of our servers the $USER and other
> env vars are being forced to one particular user. rsh (no comments [:-)]
> etc are fine, as is su - someuser.
>
> I've put in echo's at the top of /etc/login and $USER even set wrong
> there (before any local stuff).
>
> before I telnet to this system all the env vars are fine, so its not
> like they are getting transferred.
>
> I tried trussing in.telnetd but after the initial startup I get little
> besides the character read/write stuff
>
> Can't figure out how/why all these env vars (including loads of local
> stuff) is getting set. All the perms on in.telnetd etc seem fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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