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tftp on quiche

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mkgray@mit.edu)
Fri Oct 29 08:15:52 1993

From: mkgray@mit.edu
To: linux-dev@mit.edu
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 08:15:10 EDT

It was pointed out to me by someone that tftp is enabled by default under SLS
which is something of a security hole, namely:

tftp -r /tmp/foo quiche.mit.edu /etc/passwd

Copies /etc/passwd from quiche to /tmp/foo locally.  This should probably
be fixed.

					Matthew

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