Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:37:09 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: bugs@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/1145: tftpd should support -s Message-ID: <199604161437.IAA04439@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 15 Apr 1996 22:55:50 PDT
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: But, why does tftpd need "-s"? 1) It is more secure than the normal tftpd because you know for sure that it will not be able to get any files that aren't in the chrooted tree. With directory prefixes you don't turn off following things through symbolic links, which is a minor security exposure that many people don't wish to expose their machines to. 2) I have a bunch of X terms that are hard to configure such that it will add the /usr/tftpboot or whatever on the front of them. There are other aps that I have as well that are hard if not impossible to reconfigure, and this solves that problem nicely. Warner
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