[Tfug] in.tftpd denied

[Brian Murphy]

Easy answer, turn off SELinux and reboot.

More involved answer, make a SELinux exception to allow the stuff in
your log message.  This part is left as an excersize to the reader. :)

Brian

Quoting evorrie at comcast.net:
> First off, I'm rather new to linux.
>
> Second, I had setup a tftp server on a VM box using Fedora 5.  I 
> thought this would be easy, but apparently not.
>
> I try to upload a config file from a cisco switch and I get:
>
> TFTP: error code 0 received - Permission denied
>
> %Error opening tftp://10.1.23.45/switch-confg (Undefined error)
>
> Logs from Fedora show the following:
>
> Sep 29 12:52:37 TFTPSRV kernel: audit(1159559557.348:40): avc:  
> denied  { write } for  pid=4513 comm="in.tftpd" name="switch-confg" 
> dev=dm-0 ino=65538 scontext=system_u:system_r:tftpd_t:s0 
> tcontext=root:object_r:tftpdir_t:s0 tclass=file
>
> I followed directions from this site for additional help, but still no luck:
>
> http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch16_:_Telnet,_TFTP,_and_xinetd
>
> Obviously its a permissions issue, but what am I looking for?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
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