Document new options and new configuration setup.

This commit is contained in:
hpa 2001-04-23 22:50:47 +00:00
parent c9f28745f5
commit 4d0dd611ae
4 changed files with 136 additions and 79 deletions

33
README.security Normal file
View file

@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
Starting in version 0.17, tftp-hpa operates in genuine "wait" mode,
which means that an in.tftpd process hangs around for some time after
the last service request has arrived. This speeds up servicing a
subsequent request, which apparently has been a problem in the past,
resulting in "request storms" as the client keeps retrying, resulting
in multiple connections on the server which the client has already
abandoned.
This also means that spawning tftp via tcpd is useless (in fact, this
indirection seems to be part of the reason for these "request
storms.") Instead, tftp-hpa supports calling the tcpwrapper library
directly. Thus, if your /etc/inetd.conf looks like this (all on one
line):
tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /tftpboot -r blksize
... it's better to change to ...
tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
in.tftpd -s /tftpboot -r blksize
You should make sure that you are using "wait" option in tftpd; you
also need to have tftpd spawned as root in order for chroot (-s) to
work. tftpd automatically drops privilege and changes user ID to
"nobody" by default; the appropriate user ID for tftpd can be
specified with the -u option (e.g. "-u tftpuser").
If you are running a very busy boot server in a secure (firewalled!)
configuration, you may want to compile tftpd without tcpwrapper
support, in order to provide significantly better performance. To do
so, specify the --without-tcpwrappers option to configure when
compiling.