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From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: Challenge
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References: <21hurt$5ko@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <21i0bh$nn@Germany.EU.net> <1993Jul9.204659.1642@intellistor.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 23:04:36 GMT
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In article <1993Jul9.204659.1642@intellistor.com>
cwolff@intellistor.com (Clint Wolff) writes: 
>Take a quick look at your system, and see how many of your company proprietary
>files are in directories that are world read/execute... ALL of these files 
>are accessible to tftp... This is bad...

Most companies don't have their source trees under /tftpboot, which is
where modern tftp servers chroot() to before giving out files.

Or have I missed something here?

Wraner
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Warner Losh		imp@boulder.parcplace.COM	ParcPlace Boulder
I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.