xinetd.d listening twice on port 69

[Mark Sargent]

Mark Sargent wrote:

> Andy Green wrote:
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>> Mark Sargent wrote:
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>> | yes, Andy, I have restarted, even rebooted with no change. With your
>> | permissions Q, are you referring to the dir tftpboot.? What do you 
>> mean
>> | by, xinetd process user..? Below is the permissions/ownership details
>> | for tftpboot,
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>> | -rwxrwxrwx   1 nobody nobody    0 Apr  7 13:21 tftpboot
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>> [root at server nzb]# ps -Af | grep xinetd
>> root      3674     1  0 Mar29 ?        00:00:00 xinetd -stayalive
>> - -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
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>> xinetd is apparently executing with the privs of the root user, but if I
>> do a strings on in.tftpd there is a string in there
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>> cannot drop privileges: %m
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>> suggesting that tftpd doesn't run as root.  In fact the man page says it
>> runs as nobody by default I see now.
>>
>> Anyway it's moot because you show tftpboot wide open for anyone to write
>> into.
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>> Nothing in /var/log/messages about the failed write?  Add -v -v -v to
>> the options in /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and restart xinetd, then try again...
>> it should be chattier in the log and maybe you get a clue.
>>
>> - -Andy
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> Hi All,
>
> guys, what is this..?
>
> Apr  8 04:24:53 localhost in.tftpd[6352]: WRQ from 192.168.168.12 
> filename /tftp boot
>
> Found in /var/log/messages today after I added -v -v -v to 
> /etc/xinetd.d/tftp as suggested by Andy Green. What I don't un, is, 
> why does it show the time as 04:24:53 when others are per the pc clock 
> time..? Cheers.
>
> Mark Sargent.
>
Hi All,

ok, this is working now. Both from a switch and from the pc itself via 
tftp client. I wanna thank everybody for their help/patience..most of 
all their patience with me. As Andy pointed out, the server changes from 
root to user id, so, to get the tftp client to put a file I had to make 
that file the ownership of the user running tftp-server. Oh well, it's 
all a learning experience, and heck, I've learnt a lot. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.