HP 3000 Manuals

Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services

Implementation differences 

The implementation of tftpd on the HP 3000 differs from tftpd on the HP
9000 in three ways.

   *   On HP-UX, tftpd is usually run as root.  On MPE/iX, it is usually
       run as USER.TFTP.

   *   On HP-UX, tftpd checks if the user tftp can write to or read the
       file.  On MPE, tftpd checks if the user specified in its
       configuration file can write to or read the file.  If you
       configure tftpd as recommended in this chapter, USER.TFTP will be
       specified in the configuration file and tftpd will check the same
       user.

   *   On MPE/iX, the tftp user is configurable and it is not on HP-UX.
       As a result, on MPE/iX tftpd looks at the file relative to the
       home directory of whichever user is specified in the inetd
       configuration file.  On HP-UX, inetd always looks at the file
       relative to the home directory of the tftp user.

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