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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
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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. ;-)