bertvv/ansible-role-tftp

Installs a TFTP server on RHEL/CentOS 7

ansible-role-tftp's Issues

TFTP isn't running straight out of the box, some bits are missing

Hi folks, thanks for sharing the stuff, was looking for a non-xinetd TFTP for my deployments.

I've been playing with the role on CentOS 7 minimal and "standard" versions, and found it's not running out of box due to some missing bits.

Issue #1
The playbook won't run due to missing "policycoreutils-python"
Solution
../tftp/vars/RedHat.yml

tftp_packages:
  - libsemanage-python
  - policycoreutils-python
  - tftp-server

--- end of Issue #1

Issue #2
TFTP won't be accessible due to missing firewalld rule
Solution
../tftp/handlers/main.yml

- name: restart firewalld
  service:
    name: firewalld
    state: restarted

Alternative handler (tested, less preferable)

#- name: restart firewalld
#  command: systemctl restart firewalld

Standard service handler below will cause firewalld to stop on CentOS 7

#- name: reload firewalld
#  service:
#    name: firewalld
#    state: reloaded

../tftp/tasks/main.yml

- name: Allow access to TFTP service in firewalld
  firewalld:
    service: tftp
    permanent: yes
    state: enabled
  tags: tftp
  notify:
    - restart firewalld

--- end of Issue #2

Cheers,

Use Systemd socket activation instead of xinetd

It seems like you shouldn't need to run xinetd, and can instead use tftp.socket unit to do the TFTP service activation. Would you like a patch that adds that as an option?

Allow setting user group and permissions of `tftp_root_directory`

Readme link to test playbook is broken

The link to a test playbook in the README here results in a 404.

Incompatible with Python 3.x - ["No package libsemanage-python available."]

This role fails on RHEL8.1 if ansible_python_interpreter : /usr/bin/python3.6 is used because of some dependencies.

TASK [bertvv.tftp : Install packages] *****************************************************************
failed: [192.168.1.254] (item=libsemanage-python) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "failures": ["No package libsemanage-python available."], "item": "libsemanage-python", "msg": "Failed to install some of the specified packages", "rc": 1, "results": []}
ok: [192.168.1.254] => (item=tftp-server)

Fixed by changing vars/RedHat.yml section:

tftp_packages:
  # - libsemanage-python
  - python3-policycoreutils
  - python3-libselinux
  - python3-libsemanage
  - tftp-server

So instead of using libsemanage-python i updated it to python3-libsemanage.

Otherwise works great and does it's job!
Thank you.

setting tftp_packages in host_vars is ignored

Having tftp_packages set in vars/main.yml leads to inability to override those at host_vars level.