xyproto / teaftp

:tea: Simple, read-only TFTP server

TeaFTP

Simple, read-only TFTP server.

Features and Limitations

• Suitable for dealing with hardware devices that read files over TFTP at boot (PXE).
• Security is provided by providing a list of whitelisted prefixes, suffixes and/or running the server from within a Docker container.
• If not whitelisted filename prefixes or suffixes are provided, the server may share ANY file on the system, but not write to anything.
  • Consider using the provided Docker container as a method to serve only a select group of files.
  • Alternatively, utilize the list of allowed prefixes or suffixes for added security.
• Every access is logged to stdout.

Requirements

Go 1.17 or later

Installation with Go 1.17 or Later

go install github.com/xyproto/teaftp@latest

Running

Directly

Navigate to the directory where you intend to share files:

With sudo:

sudo ./teaftp

On Linux, you can teaftp it to /usr/bin and grant additional capabilities using setcap:

sudo install -Dm755 teaftp /usr/bin/teaftp
sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /usr/bin/teaftp

Starting the server:

teaftp

Docker

To build the Docker container and copy the contents of the static directory to /srv/tftp inside the container:

docker build . -t teaftp

To run TeaFTP with Docker:

docker run --network=host -t teaftp

To run TeaFTP with Docker and serve on port 9000 instead of port 69:

docker run -ePORT=9000 --network=host -t teaftp

Allowed Suffixes

You can pass allowed filename suffixes as arguments to TeaFTP. When no arguments are given, there's no restriction on the file suffixes.

Example:

sudo ./teaftp ".txt"

This configuration will only serve filenames that end with .txt.

Dependencies

• pin/tftp
• sirupsen/logrus
• urfave/cli

General information

• Version: 1.3.0
• License: BSD-3
• Author: Alexander F. Rødseth <[email protected]>

teaftp's Issues

Needs an option to specify port

I have looked around for a simple tftp server program I can run manually to serve files from a directory and teaftp is about all I can find that does that in a simple manner. However, you can not specify a network port to serve files on. This is a problem because it means you must always run teaftp using sudo (because the default port 69 is privileged) which I always prefer to avoid. In short I want to type:

teaftp -p 8000

rather than:

sudo teaftp

I am on Arch Linux using teaftp 1.1.1-1 from the AUR.