freebsd-dev/libexec/tftpd/tftpd.8
Warner Losh 5276e63981 Go ahead and merge the work edwin@ on tftpd into the tree. It is a
lot better than what's in the tree now.  Edwin tested it at a prior
employer, but can't test it today.  I've found that it works a lot
better with the various uboot versions that I've used in my embedded
work.  Here's the pkg-descr from the port that describes the changes:

It all started when we got some new routers, which told me the
following when trying to upload configuration or download images
from it: The TFTP server doesn't support the blocksize option.

My curiousity was triggered, it took me some reading of RFCs and
other documentation to find out what was possible and what could
be done. Was plain TFTP very simple in its handshake, TFTP with
options was kind of messy because of its backwards capability: The
first packet returned could either be an acknowledgement of options,
or the first data packet.

Going through the source code of src/libexec/tftpd and going through
the code of src/usr.bin/tftp showed that there was a lot of duplicate
code, and the addition of options would only increase the amount
of duplicate code. After all, both the client and the server can
act as a sender and receiver.

At the end, it ended up with a nearly complete rewrite of the tftp
client and server. It has been tested against the following TFTP
clients and servers:

- Itself (yay!)
- The standard FreeBSD tftp client and server
- The Fedora Core 6 tftp client and server
- Cisco router tftp client
- Extreme Networks tftp client

It supports the following RFCs:

RFC1350 - THE TFTP PROTOCOL (REVISION 2)
RFC2347 - TFTP Option Extension
RFC2348 - TFTP Blocksize Option
RFC2349 - TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options
RFC3617 - Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Scheme and Applicability
          Statement for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)

It supports the following unofficial TFTP Options as described at
http://www.compuphase.com/tftp.htm:

blksize2 - Block size restricted to powers of 2, excluding protocol headers
rollover - Block counter roll-over (roll back to zero or to one)

From the tftp program point of view the following things are changed:

- New commands: "blocksize", "blocksize2", "rollover" and "options"
- Development features: "debug" and "packetdrop"

If you try this tftp/tftpd implementation, please let me know if
it works (or doesn't work) and against which implementaion so I can
get a list of confirmed working systems.

Author: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org>
2010-05-04 06:19:19 +00:00

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.\" @(#)tftpd.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd September 14, 2000
.Dt TFTPD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm tftpd
.Nd Internet Trivial File Transfer Protocol server
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm tftpd
.Op Fl cdClnow
.Op Fl F Ar strftime-format
.Op Fl s Ar directory
.Op Fl u Ar user
.Op Fl U Ar umask
.Op Ar directory ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility is a server which supports the
Internet Trivial File Transfer
Protocol
.Pq Tn RFC 1350 .
The
.Tn TFTP
server operates
at the port indicated in the
.Ql tftp
service description;
see
.Xr services 5 .
The server is normally started by
.Xr inetd 8 .
.Pp
The use of
.Xr tftp 1
does not require an account or password on the remote system.
Due to the lack of authentication information,
.Nm
will allow only publicly readable files to be
accessed.
Files containing the string
.Dq Li "/../"
or starting with
.Dq Li "../"
are not allowed.
Files may be written only if they already exist and are publicly writable.
Note that this extends the concept of
.Dq public
to include
all users on all hosts that can be reached through the network;
this may not be appropriate on all systems, and its implications
should be considered before enabling tftp service.
The server should have the user ID with the lowest possible privilege.
.Pp
Access to files may be restricted by invoking
.Nm
with a list of directories by including up to 20 pathnames
as server program arguments in
.Xr inetd.conf 5 .
In this case access is restricted to files whose
names are prefixed by the one of the given directories.
The given directories are also treated as a search path for
relative filename requests.
.Pp
The
.Fl s
option provides additional security by changing
the root directory of
.Nm ,
thereby prohibiting accesses to outside of the specified
.Ar directory .
Because
.Xr chroot 2
requires super-user privileges,
.Nm
must be run as
.Li root .
However, after performing the
.Xr chroot 2
call,
.Nm
will set its user ID to that of the specified
.Ar user ,
or
.Dq Li nobody
if no
.Fl u
option is specified.
.Pp
The options are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl c
Changes the default root directory of a connecting host via
.Xr chroot 2
based on the connecting IP address.
This prevents multiple clients from writing to the same file at the same time.
If the directory does not exist, the client connection is refused.
The
.Fl s
option is required for
.Fl c
and the specified
.Ar directory
is used as a base.
.It Fl C
Operates the same as
.Fl c
except it falls back to
.Ar directory
specified via
.Fl s
if a directory does not exist for the client's IP.
.It Fl F
Use this
.Xr strftime 3
compatible format string for the creation of the suffix if
.Fl W
is specified.
By default the string "%Y%m%d" is used.
.It Fl d
Enables debug output.
If specified twice, it will log DATA and ACK packets too.
.It Fl l
Log all requests using
.Xr syslog 3
with the facility of
.Dv LOG_FTP .
.Sy Note :
Logging of
.Dv LOG_FTP
messages
must also be enabled in the syslog configuration file,
.Xr syslog.conf 5 .
.It Fl n
Suppress negative acknowledgement of requests for nonexistent
relative filenames.
.It Fl o
Disable support for RFC2347 style TFTP Options.
.It Fl s Ar directory
Cause
.Nm
to change its root directory to
.Ar directory .
After doing that but before accepting commands,
.Nm
will switch credentials to an unprivileged user.
.It Fl u Ar user
Switch credentials to
.Ar user
(default
.Dq Li nobody )
when the
.Fl s
option is used.
The user must be specified by name, not a numeric UID.
.It Fl U Ar umask
Set the
.Ar umask
for newly created files.
The default is 022
.Pq Dv S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH .
.It Fl w
Allow write requests to create new files.
By default
.Nm
requires that the file specified in a write request exist.
Note that this only works in directories writable by the user
specified with
.Fl u
option
.It Fl W
As
.Fl w
but append a YYYYMMDD.nn sequence number to the end of the filename.
Note that the string YYYYMMDD can be changed with the
.Fl F
option.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr tftp 1 ,
.Xr chroot 2 ,
.Xr syslog 3 ,
.Xr inetd.conf 5 ,
.Xr services 5 ,
.Xr syslog.conf 5 ,
.Xr inetd 8
.Rs
.%A K. R. Sollins
.%T The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2)
.%D July 1992
.%O RFC 1350, STD 33
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility appeared in
.Bx 4.2 ;
the
.Fl s
option was introduced in
.Fx 2.2 ,
the
.Fl u
option was introduced in
.Fx 4.2 ,
the
.Fl c
option was introduced in
.Fx 4.3 ,
and the
.Fl F
and
.Fl W
options were introduced in
.Fx 7 .
.Pp
Support for Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options (RFC2349)
was introduced in
.Fx 5.0 ,
support for the TFTP Blocksize Option (RFC2348) and the blksize2 option
was introduced in
.Fx 7 .
.Sh BUGS
Files larger than 33488896 octets (65535 blocks) cannot be transferred
without client and server supporting blocksize negotiation (RFC2348).
.Pp
Many tftp clients will not transfer files over 16744448 octets (32767 blocks).