.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
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Trivial File Transfer Protocol server
is a server which supports the
at the port indicated in the
The server is normally started by
does not require an account or password on the remote system.
Due to the lack of authentication information,
will allow only publicly readable files to be
Files may be written only if they already exist and are publicly writable.
Note that this extends the concept of
all users on all hosts that can be reached through the network;
this may not be appropriate on all systems, and its implications
should be considered before enabling tftp service.
The server should have the user ID with the lowest possible privilege.
Access to files may be restricted by invoking
with a list of directories by including pathnames
as server program arguments in
In this case access is restricted to files whose
names are prefixed by the one of the given directories.
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