5. Fedora Core 4 TFTP - Permission denied (Jay Isaacs)

[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:40 -0800, Jay Isaacs wrote:
> Upon another recommendation I kill the xinetd process and ran the tftp
> server with the following command line and everything works fine.  There
> must be some configuration item I an missing with xinetd.
> 
> 
> /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -l -v -v -s /tftpboot 

One of the reasons tftp by default won't create a file is that there is
no authentication needed.  This becomes a security issue.  Particularly
for Internet facing systems.