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From: tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SCO Unix inetd.conf trouble -- please help!
Keywords: SCO,inetd,setuid
Message-ID: <903@barsoom.nhh.no>
Date: 3 Jun 90 15:15:14 GMT
References: <900@barsoom.nhh.no>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Norwegian School of Economics
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I wrote:
>I've got a pretty annoying problem with SCO TCP/IP 1.1.0 under SCO
>Unix V/386 3.2.0 here...  There's a known bug in the TCP/IP support
>stuff that makes a process started from an rc script run without
>"login authentication".  This means that the process won't be able to
>run any setuid/setgid programs, because the system doesn't trust it or
>something.  The workaround is that you explicitly say "su root -c
>command" to run the daemon in question.

...and I went on to describe how I couldn't make nntpd and
telnetd/ftpd work at the same time, because the former wants inetd to
be started with "su root -c inetd", while the latter two don't like
that at all.  I've figured out what to do; it turned out that the
nntpd could run standalone, without invocation through inetd.  This is
OK, except that I've got another process running all the time, taking
up memory.  Not a big deal, though.

Anyway, it doesn't solve the original problem.  So, has anyone got any
idea about what a process can do when it's been invoked from inetd
under SCO Unix, and wants to run a setuid program?  Or, better yet,
does anyone have telnetd and/or ftpd sources that are compilable under
SCO Unix?  I've looked at the free BSD stuff, but it'll take some work
to get those up and running, they're very BSD specific...

-tih
-- 
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, NHH, Bergen, Norway.  Telephone: +47-5-959205
tih@barsoom.nhh.no, thelbekk@norunit.bitnet, edb_tom@debet.nhh.no