How to Change a Property for an inetd Controlled Service

1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

   Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

2. List the properties for the specific service.

   This command displays all of the properties for the service identified by the FMRI.

   # inetadm -l FMRI

3. Change the property for the service.

   Each property for an inetd controlled service is defined by a property name and an assigned value. Supplying the property name without a specified value resets the property to the default value. Specific information about the properties for a service should be covered in the man page associated with the service.

   # inetadm -m FMRI property-name=value

4. Verify that the property has changed.

   List the properties again to make sure that the appropriate change has occurred.

   # inetadm -l FMRI

5. Confirm that the change has taken effect.

   Confirm the property change that the change has the desired effect.

Example 19–12 Changing the tcp_trace Property for telnet

The following example shows how to set the tcp_trace property for telnet to true. Checking the syslog output after running a telnet command shows that the change has taken effect.

# inetadm -l svc:/network/telnet:default
SCOPE    NAME=VALUE
         name="telnet"
 .
 .
default  inherit_env=TRUE
default  tcp_trace=FALSE
default  tcp_wrappers=FALSE
# inetadm -m svc:/network/telnet:default tcp_trace=TRUE
# inetadm -l svc:/network/telnet:default
SCOPE    NAME=VALUE
         name="telnet"
 .
 .
default  inherit_env=TRUE
         tcp_trace=TRUE
default  tcp_wrappers=FALSE
# telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
login: root
Password: 
Last login: Mon Jun 21 05:55:45 on console
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10      s10_57  May 2004
# ^D
Connection to localhost closed by foreign host.
# tail -1 /var/adm/messages
Jun 21 06:04:57 yellow-19 inetd[100308]: [ID 317013 daemon.notice] telnet[100625]
    from 127.0.0.1 32802