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Date:      Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:36:55 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Jesse <jesse@206underground.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: secure(?) replacement for tftpd
Message-ID:  <20020629033655.GA46200@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <NOECKMIGOKIAJEHEMEBNEEBKCEAA.jesse@206underground.net>
References:  <NOECKMIGOKIAJEHEMEBNEEBKCEAA.jesse@206underground.net>

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In the last episode (Jun 28), Jesse said:
> 
> Hello all,
> 	I've recently been given the responsibility of looking after a few machines
> at my place of employment and while in the process of identifying security
> risks on said machines I've run into a snag with the tftpd service.
> 
> The question is, what if any (more)secure alternatives are there to running
> tftpd out of inet?

What problems do you see with tftpd?  Assuming you're using the chroot
option and there are no writable files in its directory, you should be
fine.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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