Bugzilla – Bug 273509
Please make Yast TFTP Server RW
Last modified: 2016-10-26 11:09:26 UTC
hi all ! currently Yast TFTP server is RO, which is boot only for remote OS booting, however it would help me very much if that TFTP server could have RW functionality. Sometimes I work with old Cisco Routers (network equipment) that needs that functionality for configuration backups. This feature is should be easy to add, and will help me. -Alexey "Technologov"
It would be best to just change the yast2-tftp module over to managing the atftp server rather than bother rebuilding the simple tftp server . This would solve issues with the documentation for the kiwi-ltsp release pointing to some commandline instruction. the kiwi-ltsp project will most likely be used by teachers and non-professional installers trying to help out some poor school.
Originally reported on 10.3, moving to 11.0. Comment 0 - enabling write access: I guess that would be just one checkbox, but with a big fat warning about the security implications. Offhand I can think of - denial of service by filling up the disk with junk. Implementation notes: tftp.rpm, man tftpd, options -c: allow creation, -p: public, allow writing if the FS permissions allow it, -U: umask. Comment 1 - atftp: One does not need atftp to enable write access. Please open a separate report and explain (with links?) what the issues with kiwi-ltsp are.
No issues with kiwi-ltsp, we use tftp server as of now, we'd be fine using whatever is openSUSE default. We don't need/use rw option.
Sorry, we did not get around to fixing this bug. Judging by the low activity in the item, it seems that this is not a big problem after all, so we close it. Please reopen if the bug should get fixed.