[Nottingham] tftpd service request logging

[James Green]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:40:35AM +0100, Martin wrote:

> For security, you should look at sftp (ssh). Note that ftp sends the 
> user id and password in plain text, so it is good for anonymous serving 
> only.

As far as I'm aware, tftp doesn't support username/password
authentication - it is, after all, the _trivial_ file transfer
protocol...

tftp is generally used for booting diskless clients and stuff, as
someone already noted; I'd be impressed by a machine that could netboot
via sftp. :-)

Cheers,
James.
-- 
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. 
You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy
officials have gone by.
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