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Bugtraq archives for 3rd quarter (Jul-Sep) 1996: Re: admintool (was Re: Zolaris 2.5 Exploited.)

Re: admintool (was Re: Zolaris 2.5 Exploited.)

Paul Ashton (ashtonpgb.swissbank.com)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 17:36:37 BST

...
>cat 'clue' | admintool_authorsun.com

>truss/strace/sctrace/equivalent on applications such as these can be
>quite enlightening (if nothing else, look for 'open()' calls.

Add in the following environment variables that it uses

DISPLAY
HOME
LANG
LC_ALL
LC_COLLATE
LC_CTYPE
LC_MESSAGES
LC_MONETARY
LC_NUMERIC
LC_TIME
NLSPATH
OPENWINHOME
RESOURCE_NAME
SYS_INST
SYS_MACHINE
SYS_PLATFORM
XAPPLRESDIR
XAUTHORITY
XBMLANGPATH
XCMSDB
XENVIRONMENT
XFILESEARCHPATH
XKEYSYMDB
XMICONSEARCHPATH
XMODIFIERS
XSUNBUFFERSIZE
XSUNTRANSPORT
XUSERFILESEARCHPATH

for example, truss it with OPENWINHOME or HOME set to /tmp/foo

Paul