[syslinux] Re: Can't get hpa-tftpd working on Slackware 9.1

[H. Peter Anvin]

Denis Grannell wrote:
> The one minor anomaly 
> is that despite the "-u" option, the tftpd daemon is running as root 
> instead of as "nobody". This not significant in the environment 
> where my setup is running. It may however be significant in 
> production environments.

The listening daemon always does.  It changes to the specified user 
before an actual transfer takes place (this is unfortunately required 
because chroot() is privileged.)

	-hpa