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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-07-05 07:37:33 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-07-05 07:37:33 +0000
commitc25970b2740e69c16597a98f83bb3162a553ef1d (patch)
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-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.835
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8 b/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
index 1a63227..241aaa3 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ Instead of returning
the user's name to the ident requester,
report a
username made up of random alphanumeric characters,
-e.g.
+e.g.\&
.Dq c0c993 .
The
.Fl g
@@ -620,7 +620,9 @@ only wraps requests for a
.Dq wait
service while no servers are available to service requests.
Once a
-connection to such a service has been allowed, inetd has no control
+connection to such a service has been allowed,
+.Nm
+has no control
over subsequent connections to the service until no more servers
are left listening for connection requests.
.Pp
@@ -696,7 +698,9 @@ To do this you specify a
.Em protocol
of
.Dq unix
-and specify the unix domain socket as the
+and specify the
+.Ux
+domain socket as the
.Em service-name .
The
.Em service-type
@@ -710,26 +714,31 @@ optionally prefixed by an owner and mode
of the form
.Em :user:group:mode: .
The specification:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-:news:daemon:220:/var/run/sock
-.Ed
+.Pp
+.Dl ":news:daemon:220:/var/run/sock"
+.Pp
creates a socket owned
-by user news in group daemon
+by user
+.Dq news
+in group
+.Dq daemon
with permissions allowing only that user and group to connect.
-The default owner is the user that inetd is running as.
+The default owner is the user that
+.Nm
+is running as.
The default mode only allows the socket's owner to connect.
.Pp
-.Sy WARNING:
+.Sy WARNING :
while creating
.Ux
-domain socket
+domain socket,
.Nm
must change the ownership and permissions on the socket.
This can only be done securely if
the directory in which the socket is created
is writable only by root.
Do
-.Sy NOT
+.Em NOT
use
.Nm
to create sockets in world writable directories,
@@ -857,9 +866,9 @@ program attempted to renounce the privileged state associated with a
socket but was unable to.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr ipsec_set_policy 3 ,
.Xr hosts_access 5 ,
.Xr hosts_options 5 ,
-.Xr ipsec_set_policy 3 ,
.Xr login.conf 5 ,
.Xr passwd 5 ,
.Xr rpc 5 ,
@@ -867,9 +876,9 @@ socket but was unable to.
.Xr comsat 8 ,
.Xr fingerd 8 ,
.Xr ftpd 8 ,
-.Xr rpcbind 8 ,
.Xr rexecd 8 ,
.Xr rlogind 8 ,
+.Xr rpcbind 8 ,
.Xr rshd 8 ,
.Xr telnetd 8 ,
.Xr tftpd 8
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