Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:56:50 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Feng Li <fengli@kddia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there any info about this type tftp daemon ? Message-ID: <20021023165650.GD15601@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20021023112945.5E51.FENGLI@kddia.com> References: <20021023112945.5E51.FENGLI@kddia.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:32:51AM -0400, Feng Li wrote: > > > Hi, Friends > > > I am a FreeBSD OS user. I am using one FreeBSD box as > my TFTP server. But with a inconventient problem: > > Everytime, before I send file to this server, I have > to do the following process on this server: > > /usr/tftpboot# touch xxxx-config > /usr/tftpboot# chmod 666 xxxx-config > > I hope to omit this process, so if anyone knows where I can get > a TFTP daemon which can allow me to omit above inconvenience ? This indicates the tftpd daemon does not have write permission to /usr/tftpboot. This is of course a potential security hole because tftp does not authenticate, so you're giving everyone who can connect to your tftpd the permission to write/overwrite files into that directory. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9ttTSWry0BWjoQKURAvLDAJ4yNuKojWWrkJujVb8IejKsI9BGvwCg+CY7 2qvDyfykAXVGmhC9zCyaRlk= =Q3k9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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