Just a few points that I figured out about running tftp-hpa on sarge
which were not explained in the bug.

The tftpd-hpa man page states that "the server should be set
to run as the user with the lowest possible privilege"
It's OK (and necessary) to get inetd to run in.tftpd as root though,
as in.tftpd will itself change user to "nobody" by default,
or to whatever is passed in the -u argument.

A quick note on file permissions is that
tftp by default doesn't allow creating files and only
allows writes to existing files when o+w set.

A separate thing I noticed that the '-l' option was specified in
/etc/default/tftpd-hpa?
This is standalone (listen) mode, which would conflict with the server
started by inetd?

Pádraig.


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