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Date:      Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:17:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Howto: Sun 3's as X Terminal
Message-ID:  <199603311617.SAA11723@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603310947.TAA28957@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 31, 96 07:17:22 pm

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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. ;-)



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