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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 2003 18:20:16 -0800
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: tftpd config problem
Message-ID:  <E190uKu-0004r2-00@ran.psg.com>
References:  <E190slm-0004iP-00@ran.psg.com> <20030403121721.A13031@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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> You are running tftpd as "nobody" and asking it to chroot into /foo,
> which is a privileged operation. You should probably run tftpd as root,
> and use the -u option to make it run as an unprivileged user.

Brian McDonald <brianmcd@columbus.rr.com> gets first credit for catching my
stoopidity (in private email).  but this was exactly it.  thank you both.

randy



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