From: [email protected]

This is reproducible for me too.

initgroups seems to call syscall setgroups32() regardless of whether
the process is root or not, and regardless of whether the process
already has the requested groups. setgroups32() fails with EPERM if
the process is not root, even if the groups are already as requested.
(Seems reasonable to me.) Thus the failure.

It works OK if inetd.conf is changed to run tftpd as root, as Jaakko
said.

So the fix is either

0- Just document that it has to be started as root, and make the
install script do that.

1- Change tftpd so that if it's started as non-root, it doesn't try
to chroot, change privileges, etc.

0 is easier; 1 is probably neater.

I'm going to change the tags to that effect.

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Martin

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