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Is it possible to bind telnetd to a specific IP on AIX 5.3? I know telnet is evil. Unfortunately, we have to have it listening on one interface for a specific application, but I want to make sure that's the only interface/IP that it's listening on.

I have been searching all over the net and have found some advice for Linux, but it doesn't appear to be applicable to AIX.

Full disclosure: I am not the server admin, but I am working closely with them and am familiar with *nix.

Add: This is an internal server, which is connected to two different vlans. This is NOT connected to the Internet(!).

I've searched high and low for an answer to this. I have keys setup so no password is needed for the ssh into remote host. I have sudo set up with that user so that I can run the needed commands as root with no password. I've only been using ssh to execute remote commands for a few days (what a glorious discovery!).

A little background: The script that's being run on the remote host is a typical start/stop script for a program. Somewhere in the actual program, a log file is opened for writing. On the remote host, all is well if I run the script as root. If I run it as a user, I get an error: log4cplus:ERROR Unable to open file: appname.log. Makes sense, since the log is owned by root.

Now, the situation: I have a script on my local host that will ssh into the remote host and using sudo will run that script. The script is able to run. However, after it starts, I get that same error as above about the log file. I've tried the following, which all successfully run the script, but get the error. I know some aren't necessary, but I wanted to cover ALL bases that I could find (I tried with -t as well, but no difference. I wouldn't think there WOULD be, but...):

/usr/bin/ssh username@remotehost sh -c sudo "/etc/rc3.d/S99script start"

/usr/bin/ssh username@remotehost sh -c sudo "/etc/rc3.d/S99script start"

/usr/bin/ssh username@remotehost 'sh -c sudo "/etc/rc3.d/S99script start"'

/usr/bin/ssh username@remotehost sudo /etc/rc3.d/S99script start

/usr/bin/ssh username@remotehost "sudo /etc/rc3.d/S99script start"

/usr/bin/ssh username@remotehost sudo "/etc/rc3.d/S99script start"

/usr/bin/ssh username@remotehost 'sudo "/etc/rc3.d/S99script start"'

/usr/bin/ssh username@remotehost sudo su - -c "/etc/rc3.d/S99script start"

/usr/bin/ssh username@remotehost 'sudo su - -c "/etc/rc3.d/S99script start"'

I know there are other things I tried, but I didn't document them all. Don't laugh at my trying all the different quotes, I have a decent understanding of when to use which in general, but I wasn't taking any changes in trying different things :)

Something I noticed when running these, is if I do a ps -ef|grep for the script name, it shows the following:

[username's UID]  3070  3069  0 14:42 ?   00:00:00 bash -c /etc/rc3.d/S99script start

That's even for the ones where I do "sh -c sudo". The fact that it's running as bash -c is interesting, but also interesting (I thought?) is that it has the user's UID instead of username listed.

**Add: I also tried creating a script in "username"'s home directory that just does: sudo /etc/rc3.d/S99script start And I get the same result.