topic Re: inetd.conf user environment in Operating System - HP-UX

inetd.conf user environment

Pierre B. Samson — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:54:51 GMT

What happend when inetd start a service (user proc) under a user name?
ex: "mate stream tcp nowait user1 /usr/local/bin/mate 3"

Is the /etc/passwd file read, does the HOMEDIR is set, is the ~/.profile read and passed to the proc by inetd?

Thanks
Pierre B. Samson
CAMBAR
psamson@cambarsoft.com

Re: inetd.conf user environment

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:10:21 GMT

In your case, /usr/local/bin/mate does no more and no less than what it is instructed to do. In essence, the uid is set to that of user1 and the program is exec'ed with stdin and stdout connected to the socket. After that, whatever is done is the sole responsibilty of the programmer including setting up the environment.