[mythtv-users] Network boot

Matthew McClement mythtv at macker.co.uk
Fri Jan 9 17:17:26 UTC 2009


Mike Perkins wrote:
*snip*
> 
> Although I finally got it to work, I still would like to know why it
> didn't before. I *hate* having to use some kind of bodgery to fix
> something without knowing why it was broken in the first place.

Check the manpage for tftpd(SECURITY bit), but the short answer is:

1) the TFTP daemon won't allow reading or writing to files that don't 
have the appropriate world permissions set
2) Even if you run it as root, it'll drop to 65534 uid/gid.

Matt


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