Okay, so if I telnet in with a valid /.bashrc file, it doesn't get sourced, but when I run bash manually, it does. I'm guessing this is a limitation of our stripped-down telnetd?

Here's the strace of the shell I started after I telnetted in (as evidenced by the default shell prompt instead of the one in my bashrc, this wasn't sourced for the shell given to me by telnetd.

sh-2.03# /usr/local/bin/strace -e open bash

open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3

open("/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY)  = 3

open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY)       = 3

open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3

open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)     = 3

open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3

open("/lib/libnss_compat.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3

open("/usr/lib/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY)  = 3

open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY)           = 3

open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3

open("/lib/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3

open("/etc/bash.bashrc", O_RDONLY)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("//.bashrc", O_RDONLY)             = 3

open("/etc/terminfo/v/vt100", O_RDONLY) = 3

open("//.bash_history", O_RDONLY)       = 3

open("//.bash_history", O_RDONLY)       = 3

--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---

--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---

open("/etc/terminfo/v/vt100", O_RDONLY) = 3

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