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35 .Dd September 14, 2000
40 .Nd Internet Trivial File Transfer Protocol server
44 .Op Fl F Ar strftime-format
52 utility is a server which supports the
53 Internet Trivial File Transfer
59 at the port indicated in the
64 The server is normally started by
69 does not require an account or password on the remote system.
70 Due to the lack of authentication information,
72 will allow only publicly readable files to be
74 Files containing the string
79 Files may be written only if they already exist and are publicly writable.
80 Note that this extends the concept of
83 all users on all hosts that can be reached through the network;
84 this may not be appropriate on all systems, and its implications
85 should be considered before enabling tftp service.
86 The server should have the user ID with the lowest possible privilege.
88 Access to files may be restricted by invoking
90 with a list of directories by including up to 20 pathnames
91 as server program arguments in
93 In this case access is restricted to files whose
94 names are prefixed by the one of the given directories.
95 The given directories are also treated as a search path for
96 relative filename requests.
100 option provides additional security by changing
101 the root directory of
103 thereby prohibiting accesses to outside of the specified
107 requires super-user privileges,
111 However, after performing the
115 will set its user ID to that of the specified
126 Changes the default root directory of a connecting host via
128 based on the connecting IP address.
129 This prevents multiple clients from writing to the same file at the same time.
130 If the directory does not exist, the client connection is refused.
133 option is required for
141 except it falls back to
145 if a directory does not exist for the client's IP.
149 compatible format string for the creation of the suffix if
152 By default the string "%Y%m%d" is used.
154 Log all requests using
162 must also be enabled in the syslog configuration file,
165 Suppress negative acknowledgement of requests for nonexistent
167 .It Fl s Ar directory
170 to change its root directory to
172 After doing that but before accepting commands,
174 will switch credentials to an unprivileged user.
176 Switch credentials to
183 The user must be specified by name, not a numeric UID.
187 for newly created files.
189 .Pq Dv S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH .
191 Allow write requests to create new files.
194 requires that the file specified in a write request exist.
195 Note that this only works in directories writable by the user
202 but append a YYYYMMDD.nn sequence number to the end of the filename.
203 Note that the string YYYYMMDD can be changed with the
217 .%T The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2)
228 option was introduced in
232 option was introduced in
236 option was introduced in
242 options were introduced in
246 Files larger than 33488896 octets (65535 blocks) cannot be transferred
247 without client and server supporting blocksize negotiation (RFC1783).
249 Many tftp clients will not transfer files over 16744448 octets (32767 blocks).