/* $Slackware: inetd.c 1.79s 2001/02/06 13:18:00 volkerdi Exp $ */ /* $OpenBSD: inetd.c,v 1.79 2001/01/30 08:30:57 deraadt Exp $ */ /* $NetBSD: inetd.c,v 1.11 1996/02/22 11:14:41 mycroft Exp $ */ /* * Copyright (c) 1983,1991 The Regents of the University of California. * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software * must display the following acknowledgement: * This product includes software developed by the University of * California, Berkeley and its contributors. * 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software * without specific prior written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. */ /* * Inetd - Internet super-server * * This program invokes all internet services as needed. * connection-oriented services are invoked each time a * connection is made, by creating a process. This process * is passed the connection as file descriptor 0 and is * expected to do a getpeername to find out the source host * and port. * * Datagram oriented services are invoked when a datagram * arrives; a process is created and passed a pending message * on file descriptor 0. Datagram servers may either connect * to their peer, freeing up the original socket for inetd * to receive further messages on, or ``take over the socket'', * processing all arriving datagrams and, eventually, timing * out. The first type of server is said to be ``multi-threaded''; * the second type of server ``single-threaded''. * * Inetd uses a configuration file which is read at startup * and, possibly, at some later time in response to a hangup signal. * The configuration file is ``free format'' with fields given in the * order shown below. Continuation lines for an entry must begin with * a space or tab. All fields must be present in each entry. * * service name must be in /etc/services * socket type stream/dgram/raw/rdm/seqpacket * protocol must be in /etc/protocols * wait/nowait[.max] single-threaded/multi-threaded, max # * user[.group] or user[:group] user/group to run daemon as * server program full path name * server program arguments maximum of MAXARGS (20) * * For RPC services * service name/version must be in /etc/rpc * socket type stream/dgram/raw/rdm/seqpacket * protocol must be in /etc/protocols * wait/nowait[.max] single-threaded/multi-threaded * user[.group] or user[:group] user to run daemon as * server program full path name * server program arguments maximum of MAXARGS (20) * * For non-RPC services, the "service name" can be of the form * hostaddress:servicename, in which case the hostaddress is used * as the host portion of the address to listen on. If hostaddress * consists of a single `*' character, INADDR_ANY is used. * * A line can also consist of just * hostaddress: * where hostaddress is as in the preceding paragraph. Such a line must * have no further fields; the specified hostaddress is remembered and * used for all further lines that have no hostaddress specified, * until the next such line (or EOF). (This is why * is provided to * allow explicit specification of INADDR_ANY.) A line * *: * is implicitly in effect at the beginning of the file. * * The hostaddress specifier may (and often will) contain dots; * the service name must not. * * For RPC services, host-address specifiers are accepted and will * work to some extent; however, because of limitations in the * portmapper interface, it will not work to try to give more than * one line for any given RPC service, even if the host-address * specifiers are different. * * Comment lines are indicated by a `#' in column 1. */ /* * Here's the scoop concerning the user[.:]group feature: * * 1) set-group-option off. * * a) user = root: NO setuid() or setgid() is done * * b) other: setgid(primary group as found in passwd) * initgroups(name, primary group) * setuid() * * 2) set-group-option on. * * a) user = root: setgid(specified group) * NO initgroups() * NO setuid() * * b) other: setgid(specified group) * initgroups(name, specified group) * setuid() * */