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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Challenge
Date: 8 Jul 1993 22:33:53 +0200
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References: <GSPIEGEL.127.742156302@bsa3.kent.edu> <21hqc6$l1@Germany.EU.net> <21hurt$5ko@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
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Keywords: cron


In article <21hurt$5ko@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, pauls@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes:
|> Recommend you turn off tftp if you haven't already, unless you're booting
|> xterms.

Why ? tftpd is supposed to run uid nobody chroot() to the tftpdirectory.

Can't see how any harm can be done.

-Bernard
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