[syslinux] tftp-hpa versus atftpd

Carlos Carvalho carlos at fisica.ufpr.br
Fri May 28 05:00:04 PDT 2004


I won't use atftpd because it can only be started from inetd.

BTW, is there a reason to run tftpd as root? I know that the daemon
forks and abandons privileges to service a request, but I didn't find
a reason for it not to do it permanently. I patch it to run as nobody
after binding to the port.




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