1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are 5.\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, 6.\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such 7.\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed 8.\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the 9.\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived 10.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. 11.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED 12.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 13.\" @(#)tftpd.8 6.6 (Berkeley) 03/16/91 14.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 15.\" 16.\" @(#)tftpd.8 6.6 (Berkeley) 03/16/91 17.\" 18.Dd 19.Dt TFTPD 8 20.Os BSD 4.2 21.Sh NAME 22.Nm tftpd 23.Nd 24.Tn DARPA 25Trivial File Transfer Protocol server 26.Sh SYNOPSIS 27.Nm tftpd 28.Op Ar directory ... 29.Sh DESCRIPTION 30.Nm Tftpd 31is a server which supports the 32.Tn DARPA 33Trivial File Transfer 34Protocol. 35The 36.Tn TFTP 37server operates 38at the port indicated in the 39.Ql tftp 40service description; 41see 42.Xr services 5 . 43The server is normally started by 44.Xr inetd 8 . 45.Pp 46The use of 47.Xr tftp 1 48does not require an account or password on the remote system. 49Due to the lack of authentication information, 50.Nm tftpd 51will allow only publicly readable files to be 52accessed. 53Files may be written only if they already exist and are publicly writable. 54Note that this extends the concept of 55.Dq public 56to include 57all users on all hosts that can be reached through the network; 58this may not be appropriate on all systems, and its implications 59should be considered before enabling tftp service. 60The server should have the user ID with the lowest possible privilege. 61.Pp 62Access to files may be restricted by invoking 63.Nm tftpd 64with a list of directories by including pathnames 65as server program arguments in 66.Pa /etc/inetd.conf . 67In this case access is restricted to files whose 68names are prefixed by the one of the given directories. 69.Sh SEE ALSO 70.Xr tftp 1 , 71.Xr inetd 8 72.Sh HISTORY 73The 74.Nm 75command appeared in 76.Bx 4.2 . 77