[11391] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.6Q: mkserv (bug 3 for the night)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 17 02:26:24 1993
From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 93 02:26:09 EST
System name: the-other-woman
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.6Q (12 update(s) to same version)
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
mkserv discuss
What's wrong:
discuss.add uses the mkserv syntax "addservice"
echo "addservice discuss stream tcp nowait unswitched discuss /usr/athena/etc/discussd discussd" >> ${CONFCNG}
resulted in:
discuss stream tcp nowait root discuss /usr/athena/etc/discussd discussd
What should have happened:
the "root" shouldn't have been there. It's wrong, and it
screws up the number of parameters on the line. (inetd lost
badly trying to exec discuss)
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Looking at /mit/mkserv/src/mkserv/os.c we see lines 567-9
(inside #if defined(_IBMR2) || defined(sun) )
/* Add a username to run commands */
strcat(p1, "root");
p1 += 4; /* length of root */
I can't figure out why this is here at all as far as I can
tell, both the bsd syntax in the addservice statement and the
syntax on the sun (rs6k too) have a username there, there
shouldn't be any reason to add another. Am I confused? Am I
looking at the right sources?
