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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NCD x term help Date: 23 Dec 1995 14:18:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4bh334$naq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4b5erj$9v3@ionews.io.org> <4b7b5i$ltm@mark.ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) writes: > It should be just like with any other Unix. Put the server image on the > FreeBSD box and turn on tftp (warning -- big potential security problems > there) ... No really big security risk. However, don't blindly enable the tftp line in /etc/inetd.conf, add arguments to the actual tftp program in order to restrict its access to the file system (by convention, the argument should be /tftpboot). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)