From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 20:37: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E003237B400 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:36:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1E443E06 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:36:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g5T3atkd067754; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:36:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:36:55 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jesse Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure(?) replacement for tftpd Message-ID: <20020629033655.GA46200@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message