Booting genode/nova

Udo Steinberg udo at ...121...
Sun Jun 29 23:53:24 CEST 2014


On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:02:48 +0200 w_schmidt at ...181... (WD) wrote:

WD> Link to same directory -> boot not possible, copy of the var directory to 
WD> /tftp.../nova/var-> remote system boots.

Most TFTP servers use a specific "secure" directory and the sub-directories
underneath it. They don't support symlinks to something outside that
directory that would allow someone with write access to read or write any
file they can create a symlink to.

	- Udo
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