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- From: block@ief.itg.ti.com (Bucky Block)
- Subject: Re: HELP with tftpd daemon on AIX, please
- Sender: block@ief.itg.ti.com (Bucky Block)
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- In-Reply-To: wieder@interlan.Interlan.COM's message of 20 Aug 92 19:17:04 GMT
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:04:37 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.191704.14074@interlan.Interlan.COM>
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- In article <1992Aug20.191704.14074@interlan.Interlan.COM> wieder@interlan.Interlan.COM (Scott Wieder) writes:
-
- I need help configuring the tftpd daemon on an RS6000 running
- AIX. According to someone from IBM, AIX does not support a
- default directory.
-
- Can someone tell me how to set up tftp boot on an RS6000 running
- AIX? I am specifically interested in knowing what is the default
- directory or how to specify a home directory for the tftpd
- daemon.
-
-
- From the tftpd man page: (AIX 3.2)
-
- Access Control
-
- The /etc/tftpaccess.ctl file is searched for lines that start
- with allow: or deny:.
-
- Other lines are ignored. If the file doesn't exist, access is
- allowed. The allowed directories and files minus the denied
- directories and files can be accessed. For example, the /usr
- directory might be allowed and the /usr/ucb directory might be
- denied. This means that any directory or file in the /usr direc-
- tory, except the /usr/ucb directory, can be accessed. The en-
- tries in the /etc/tftpaccess.ctl file must be absolute path
- names. The /etc/tftpaccess.ctl file should be write-only by the
- root user.
-
- The search algorithm assumes that the local path name used in the
- tftp command is an absolute path name. It searches the
- /etc/tftpaccess.ctl file looking for allow:/. It repeatedly
- searches for allowed path names with each partial path name con-
- structed by adding the next component from the file path name.
- The longest path name matched is the one allowed. It then does
- the same with denied names, starting with the longest allowed
- path name matched.
-
- For example, if the file path name were /a/b/c and the
- /etc/tftpaccess.ctl file contained allow:/a/b and deny:/a, one
- allowed match would be made (/a/b) and no denied match starting
- with /a/b would be made, and access would be allowed.
-
- If the /etc/tftpaccess.ctl file contained allow:/a and deny:/a/b,
- one allowed match would be made (/a) and one denied match start-
- ing with /a (/a/b) would be made, and access would be denied. If
- the /etc/tftpaccess.ctl file contained allow:/a/b and also con-
-
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- Bucky Block | block@ief.itg.ti.com
- IEF Development | TIMSG: BLOC
- Texas Instruments, Plano Texas | (214) 575-4732
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