From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 11 12:45:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from snafu.adept.org (snafu.adept.org [63.201.63.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124D237B401 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:45:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by snafu.adept.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7D1D99EE33; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snafu.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A349B001; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:45:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins To: Robert Blayzor Cc: Subject: Re: Problem in tftpd In-Reply-To: <004201c2117d$76d1f290$6f00000a@z0.inoc.net> Message-ID: <20020611124406.J612-100000@snafu.adept.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Robert Blayzor wrote: > I'm running into a problem with tftpd. The problem is that when I > specify a user to run tftp, say user "ftp", tftpd can't read any files > in the root unless they are world readable. Is this a problem? From tftpd(8), "The use of tftp(1) does not require an account or password on the remote system. Due to the lack of authentication information, tftpd will allow only publicly readable files to be accessed." Later, -Mike -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message