From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 31 08:21:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA01958 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 08:21:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01939 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 08:21:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA11946 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:20:56 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA23112 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:20:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id SAA11723 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:17:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603311617.SAA11723@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Howto: Sun 3's as X Terminal To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:17:37 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603310947.TAA28957@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 31, 96 07:17:22 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > ..., it > > turned out that tftpd *must* take a directory name argument. > It doesn't : > > lovely:~>grep tftp /etc/inetd.conf > tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd This is a large security hole. The template line in the default inetd.conf has been converted to /tftpboot for this reason. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)