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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>1997-11-21 07:38:43 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>1997-11-21 07:38:43 +0000
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Cosmetics in man page. Exit(-1) -> exit(1).
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diff --git a/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 b/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8
index b3fa6bd..676a7f6 100644
--- a/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8
+++ b/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)ftpd.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
-.\" $Id: ftpd.8,v 1.17 1997/04/27 08:29:21 davidn Exp $
+.\" $Id: ftpd.8,v 1.18 1997/04/29 12:42:07 davidn Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1994
.Dt FTPD 8
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ service specification; see
.Xr services 5 .
.Pp
Available options:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl d
Debugging information is written to the syslog using LOG_FTP.
.It Fl l
@@ -80,35 +80,33 @@ by default, and may have to be enabled in
configuration file.
.It Fl D
With this option set,
-.Nm ftpd
+.Nm
will detach and become a daemon, accepting connections on the FTP port and
forking children processes to handle them. This is lower overhead than
starting
-.Nm ftpd
+.Nm
from
.Xr inetd 8
and is thus useful on busy servers to reduce load.
.It Fl R
With this option set,
-.Nm ftpd
+.Nm
will revert to historical behavior with regard to security checks on
user operations and restrictions on PORT requests.
Currently,
-.Nm ftpd
+.Nm
will only honor PORT commands directed to unprivileged ports on the
remote user's host (which violates the FTP protocol specification but
closes some security holes).
-.
.It Fl S
With this option set,
-.Nm ftpd
+.Nm
logs all anonymous transfers to the file
.Pa /var/log/ftpd
when this file exists.
-.
.It Fl U
In previous versions of
-.Nm ftpd ,
+.Nm Ns ,
when a passive mode client requested a data connection to the server,
the server would use data ports in the range 1024..4999. Now, by default,
the server will use data ports in the range 40000..44999. Specifying this
@@ -136,7 +134,7 @@ When
is specified, write the daemon's process ID to
.Ar file .
.It Fl A
-Allow only anonymous ftp access
+Allow only anonymous ftp access.
.El
.Pp
The file
@@ -161,7 +159,7 @@ prints it after a successful login.
The ftp server currently supports the following ftp requests.
The case of the requests is ignored.
.Bl -column "Request" -offset indent
-.It Request Ta "Description"
+.It Sy Request Ta Sy "Description"
.It ABOR Ta "abort previous command"
.It ACCT Ta "specify account (ignored)"
.It ALLO Ta "allocate storage (vacuously)"
@@ -213,7 +211,7 @@ SITE request.
.It UMASK Ta change umask, e.g. ``SITE UMASK 002''
.It IDLE Ta set idle-timer, e.g. ``SITE IDLE 60''
.It CHMOD Ta change mode of a file, e.g. ``SITE CHMOD 755 filename''
-.It HELP Ta give help information.
+.It HELP Ta give help information
.El
.Pp
The remaining ftp requests specified in Internet RFC 959
@@ -307,7 +305,7 @@ option is set, all transfers are logged as well.
.El
.Pp
In the last case,
-.Nm ftpd
+.Nm
takes special measures to restrict the client's access privileges.
The server performs a
.Xr chroot 2
@@ -358,7 +356,7 @@ account in this directory.
.El
.Pp
If the system has multiple IP addresses,
-.Nm ftpd
+.Nm
supports the idea of virtual hosts, which provides the ability to
define multiple anonymous ftp areas, each one allocated to a different
internet address.
@@ -405,7 +403,7 @@ to setup and maintenance to guard against security related problems.
If compiled with the
.Em INTERNAL_LS
option,
-.Nm ftpd
+.Nm
will have internal support for handling remote requests to list
files, and will not execute
.Pa /bin/ls
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