Re: tftp in version 3.6, rejections

[Bruno Rohee <bruno_(_at_)_rohee_(_dot_)_com>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:38:10PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Chris E Creighton wrote:
> 
> > I've been dumping config files from a cisco router to my OpenBSD machines
> > since version 2.7 through version 3.5, but now I'm getting tftpd rejections.
> > 
> > Has something changed?
> 
> Sorry for the late response.
> 
> The only real change in 3.6 vs 3.5 is that now tftpd drops privileges to 
> the _tftpd user and group, instead of nobody. 
> 
> I tried to reproduce your problem here, using the tftp client from 
> OpenBSD. I can upload files fine.
> 
> Let's first try to see if the problem is with interoperability between 
> OpenBSD and the Cisco client. Can you check if you are able to upload 
> files using another client, for example tftp(1)?

For the record I'm able to successfuly upload to an OpenBSD from a
Netscreen. I think the key is /tftpboot rights. The user _tftpd
must have write access to it. My /tftpboot has the following rights...

drwxr-xr-x  2 _tftpd  wheel  1536 Feb 21 18:10 /tftpboot/

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