How to make TFTP server writeable

[Saeed42]

Unable to write to tftp server, permissions are set to 777 and I can get files from it, but how do I make it writeable, I know most people say that the file needs to exist on the server before you can write to it, but I did achieve this with an old server I built for one of our customers but I'm not sure what I did to make it writeable, so my question is does anyone know what I need to do to achieve this.

Thanks


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[pupu]

Have you tried 'man tftpd'?

-c Allow new files to be created. By default, tftpd will only allow upload of files that already exist. Files are created with default permissions allowing anyone to read or write them, unless the -p or -U options are specified.

 

[Saeed42]

If you take look at my config file you can see, I've done what you suggested and restarted xinetd, but I still cannot write to the server.

{
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -c /home/tftpboot
disable = no
per_source = 11
cps = 100 2
}



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[Saeed42]

Thanks, you are a star, with your help I got it to work


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[Saeed42]

When I try to change the user to nobody I get this error message "cannot set groups for user nobody" any ideas why?


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[Morsing]

What groups does nobody belong to??

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[Saeed42]

group nobody


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