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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. |
2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
4 | .\" | |
cdffac89 | 5 | .\" @(#)tftpd.8 6.1 (Berkeley) %G% |
9a0d3ce2 | 6 | .\" |
cdffac89 | 7 | .TH TFTPD 8C "" |
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8 | .UC 5 |
9 | .SH NAME | |
10 | tftpd \- DARPA Trivial File Transfer Protocol server | |
11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
12 | .B /etc/tftpd | |
13 | [ | |
14 | .B \-d | |
15 | ] [ | |
16 | .I port | |
17 | ] | |
18 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
19 | .I Tftpd | |
20 | is a server which supports the DARPA Trivial File Transfer | |
21 | Protocol. The TFTP server operates | |
22 | at the port indicated in the ``tftp'' service description; | |
23 | see | |
24 | .IR services (5). | |
25 | This port number may be overridden (for debugging purposes) | |
26 | by specifying a port number on the command line. If the | |
27 | .B \-d | |
28 | option is specified, each socket created by | |
29 | .I tftpd | |
30 | will have debugging enabled (see SO_DEBUG in | |
31 | .IR socket (2)). | |
32 | .PP | |
33 | The use of | |
34 | .I tftp | |
35 | does not require an account or password on the remote system. | |
36 | Due to the lack of authentication information, | |
37 | .I tftpd | |
38 | will allow only publicly readable files to be | |
39 | accessed. | |
40 | Note that this extends the concept of ``public'' to include | |
41 | all users on all hosts that can be reached through the network; | |
42 | this may not be appropriate on all systems, and its implications | |
43 | should be considered before enabling tftp service. | |
44 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
45 | tftp(1C) | |
46 | .SH BUGS | |
47 | This server is known only to be self consistent | |
48 | (i.e. it operates with the user TFTP program, | |
49 | .IR tftp (1C)). | |
50 | Due to the unreliability of the transport protocol | |
51 | (UDP) and the scarcity of TFTP implementations, | |
52 | it is uncertain whether it really works. | |
53 | .PP | |
54 | The search permissions of the directories leading to the files accessed | |
55 | are not checked. |