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190 lines
5.0 KiB
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.\" $NetBSD: tftpd.8,v 1.8 1998/07/29 11:31:22 lukem Exp $
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.\" from: @(#)tftpd.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd July 29, 1998
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.Dt TFTPD 8
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.Os BSD 4.2
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm tftpd
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.Nd
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.Tn DARPA
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Internet Trivial File Transfer Protocol server
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl g Ar group
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.Op Fl l
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.Op Fl n
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.Op Fl s Ar directory
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.Op Fl u Ar user
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.Op Ar directory ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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is a server which supports the
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.Tn DARPA
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Trivial File Transfer
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Protocol.
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The
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.Tn TFTP
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server operates
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at the port indicated in the
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.Ql tftp
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service description;
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see
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.Xr services 5 .
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The server is normally started by
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.Xr inetd 8 .
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.Pp
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The use of
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.Xr tftp 1
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does not require an account or password on the remote system.
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Due to the lack of authentication information,
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.Nm
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will allow only publicly readable files to be
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accessed.
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Files containing the string ``/\|\fB.\|.\fP\|/'' are not allowed.
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Files may be written only if they already exist and are publicly writable.
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Note that this extends the concept of
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.Dq public
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to include
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all users on all hosts that can be reached through the network;
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this may not be appropriate on all systems, and its implications
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should be considered before enabling tftp service.
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The server should have the user ID with the lowest possible privilege.
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.Pp
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Access to files may be restricted by invoking
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.Nm
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with a list of directories by including up to 20 pathnames
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as server program arguments in
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.Pa /etc/inetd.conf .
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In this case access is restricted to files whose
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names are prefixed by the one of the given directories.
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The given directories are also treated as a search path for
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relative filename requests.
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.Pp
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The options are:
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.Bl -tag -width "directory"
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.It Fl g Ar group
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Change gid to that of
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.Ar group
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on startup.
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If this isn't specified, the gid is set to that of the
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.Ar user
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specified with
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.Fl u .
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.It Fl l
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Logs all requests using
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.Xr syslog 3 .
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.It Fl n
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Suppresses negative acknowledgement of requests for nonexistent
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relative filenames.
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.It Fl s Ar directory
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.Nm
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will
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.Xr chroot 2
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to
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.Ar directory
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on startup.
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This is recommended for security reasons (so that files other than
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those in the
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.Pa /tftpboot
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directory aren't accessable).
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If the remote host passes the directory name as part of the
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file name to transfer, you may have to create a symbolic link
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from
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.Sq tftpboot
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to
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.Sq \&.
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under
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.Pa /tftpboot .
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.It Fl u Ar user
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Change uid to that of
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.Ar user
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on startup.
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If
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.Fl u
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isn't given,
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.Ar user
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defaults to
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.Dq nobody .
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If
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.Fl g
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isn't also given, change the gid to that of
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.Ar user
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as well.
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.El
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.Pp
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr tftp 1 ,
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.Xr inetd 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl s
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flag appeared in
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.Nx 1.0 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl g
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and
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.Fl u
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flags appeared in
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.Nx 1.4 .
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.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
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You are
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.Em strongly
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advised to setup
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.Nm
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using the
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.Fl s
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flag in conjunction with the name of the directory that
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contains the files that
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.Nm
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will serve to remote hosts (e.g.,
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.Pa /tftpboot ) .
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This ensures that only the files that should be served
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to remote hosts can be accessed by them.
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.Pp
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Because there is no user-login or validation within
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the
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.Tn TFTP
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protocol, the remote site will probably have some
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sort of file-access restrictions in place. The
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exact methods are specific to each site and therefore
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difficult to document here.
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