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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R: tftpd directory arguments don't work?
Date: 2 Jun 1995 13:08:33 +0200
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Michael Borowiec <mikebo@MCS.COM> wrote:
>Since the Cisco absolutely can't specify a destination path, is there a way
>I can convince tftpd to use a default path ala SunOS's -s option:
>tftpd -s /tftpboot ?
chroot? But be careful, chroot is restricted to uid 0. Perhaps you
need a wrapper that switches uid's after chroot'ing (maybe in Perl).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)