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Authored by marck on Jul 19 2023, 2:23 PM.
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Having bunch of network devices usually imposes writing their configs via TFTP.

However, strict RFC compatibility dictates that files to be written should be world-writable, which is inconvenient in real-world scenarios.

Avoid it via introducing '-S' option

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marck requested review of this revision.Jul 19 2023, 2:23 PM

upload long context patch

while here, fix double-colon typo in option string

lwhsu added inline comments.
libexec/tftpd/tftpd.8
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don't forget to bump the date when updating the content :)

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jul 20 2023, 9:56 PM