Trivial File Transfer Protocol

[phil at RICE.ARPA]

From:  William LeFebvre <phil at RICE.ARPA>

Another major difference between FTP and TFTP is that TFTP doesn't
attempt any sort of protection checking.  Anything it reads from a
remote machine must be world readable and anything it writes to a local
machine must be world writable (or be in a directory that is world
writable if the file doesn't already exist).  FTP forces its user to
log in and will use that username for permission/protection checking at
the other end.  When I first read the message from ...!allegra!don, I
thought that that might be his problem, but it could also just be that
it doesn't work (since hardly anyone ever uses it).

                                William LeFebvre
				Department of Computer Science
				Rice University
                                <phil at Rice.arpa>