How to Change a Property for an inetd Controlled Service

1. Become superuser or assume a role that includes the Service Management rights profile.

   Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC 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 17–12 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