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- From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
- Subject: Re: Install problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.014909.12730@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Keywords: Install CDROM remote
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <YFF=#z@engin.umich.edu> <srp.721956667@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 01:49:09 GMT
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- In article <srp.721956667@cgl.ucsf.edu> srp@cgl.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell) writes:
- >hillig@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Kurt Hillig) writes:
- >
- >>I've disabled logins on the guest account ("*" in the password field
- >>in /etc/passwd on the 360), and edited its /usr/etc/inetd.conf's tftp line:
- >
- >> tftp dgram udp wait guest /usr/etc/tftpd \
- >> tftpd -l -s /usr/local/boot /CDROM/dist
- >>(folded for legibility).
- >
- >Looks ok, but I run it as root and say for the secure directory: /CDROM.
-
- I thought it was generally a bad idea to use root as the uid (though with
- the -s flag it may not matter); the man page says to give tftpd the uid of
- the least privileged user. We also use /CDROM instead of /CDROM/dist, but
- I don't know if it matters.
-
- >0) Are you running cdinstmgr ? (I assume that it just does the
- > automounting as you describe above - but maybe it does more...)
-
- I don't think this matters -- cdinstmgr seems to mainly be a convenient
- way of making sure the CD only gets ejected at appropriate times. It is
- not essential.
-
- >1) Are all the client machines in /etc/hosts.equiv on uranium?
- >2) or is the uranium:~guest/.rhosts file set correctly?
-
- I think this is the real problem.
-
- >3) It is my recollection that the remote user of inst under 3.3.X was
- >"inst," consequently the .rhosts file had to let "inst" use the login..
- >i.e. the <server>:~guest/.rhosts file had:
- >
- > hostname1 inst
- > hostname2 inst
-
- It seems to do it as user 'guest', not 'inst'.
-
- - David Hinds
- dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
-