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ftp-proxy(8)

NAME

     ftp-proxy -- Internet File Transfer Protocol proxy server

SYNOPSIS

     ftp-proxy [-AnrVw] [-a address] [-D debuglevel] [-g group] [-M maxport]
	       [-m minport] [-t timeout] [-u user]

DESCRIPTION

     ftp-proxy is a proxy for the Internet File Transfer Protocol.  The proxy
     uses pf(4) and expects to have the FTP control connection as described in
     services(5) redirected to it via a pf(4) rdr command.  An example of how
     to do that is further down in this document.

     The options are as follows:

     -A      Permit only anonymous FTP connections.  The proxy will allow con-
	     nections to log in to other sites as the user "ftp" or
	     "anonymous" only.	Any attempt to log in as another user will be
	     blocked by the proxy.

     -a address
	     Specify the local IP address to use in bind(2) as the source for
	     connections made by ftp-proxy when connecting to destination FTP
	     servers.  This may be necessary if the interface address of your
	     default route is not reachable from the destinations ftp-proxy is
	     attempting connections to, or this address is different from the
	     one connections are being NATed to.  In the usual case this means
	     that address should be a publicly visible IP address assigned to
	     one of the interfaces on the machine running ftp-proxy and should
	     be the same address to which you are translating traffic if you
	     are using the -n option.

     -D debuglevel
	     Specify a debug level, where the proxy emits verbose debug output
	     into syslogd(8) at level LOG_DEBUG.  Meaningful values of debu-
	     glevel are 0-3, where 0 is no debug output and 3 is lots of debug
	     output, the default being 0.

     -g group
	     Specify the named group to drop group privileges to, after doing
	     pf(4) lookups which require root.	By default, ftp-proxy uses the
	     default group of the user it drops privilege to.

     -M maxport
	     Specify the upper end of the port range the proxy will use for
	     the data connections it establishes.  The default is
	     IPPORT_HILASTAUTO defined in <netinet/in.h> as 65535.

     -m minport
	     Specify the lower end of the port range the proxy will use for
	     all data connections it establishes.  The default is
	     IPPORT_HIFIRSTAUTO defined in <netinet/in.h> as 49152.

     -n      Activate network address translation (NAT) mode.  In this mode,
	     the proxy will not attempt to proxy passive mode (PASV or EPSV)
	     data connections.	In order for this to work, the machine running
	     the proxy will need to be forwarding packets and doing network

     -r      Use reverse host (reverse DNS) lookups for logging and libwrap
	     use.  By default, the proxy does not look up hostnames for lib-
	     wrap or logging purposes.

     -t timeout
	     Specifies a timeout, in seconds.  The proxy will exit and close
	     open connections if it sees no data for the duration of the time-
	     out.  The default is 0, which means the proxy will not time out.

     -u user
	     Specify the named user to drop privilege to, after doing pf(4)
	     lookups which require root privilege.  By default, ftp-proxy
	     drops privilege to the user proxy.

	     Running as root means that the source of data connections the
	     proxy makes for PORT and EPRT will be the RFC mandated port 20.
	     When running as a non-root user, the source of the data connec-
	     tions from ftp-proxy will be chosen randomly from the range
	     minport to maxport as described above.

     -V      Be verbose.  With this option the proxy logs the control commands
	     sent by clients and the replies sent by the servers to
	     syslogd(8).

     -w      Use the tcp wrapper access control library hosts_access(3),
	     allowing connections to be allowed or denied based on the tcp
	     wrapper's hosts.allow(5) and hosts.deny(5) files.	The proxy does
	     libwrap operations after determining the destination of the cap-
	     tured control connection, so that tcp wrapper rules may be writ-
	     ten based on the destination as well as the source of FTP connec-
	     tions.

     ftp-proxy is run from inetd(8) and requires that FTP connections are
     redirected to it using a rdr rule.  A typical way to do this would be to
     use a pf.conf(5) rule such as

       int_if = "xl0"
       rdr pass on $int_if proto tcp from any to any port 21 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8021

     inetd(8) must then be configured to run ftp-proxy on the port from above
     using

       ftp-proxy stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftp-proxy ftp-proxy

     in inetd.conf(5).

     ftp-proxy accepts the redirected control connections and forwards them to
     the server.  The proxy replaces the address and port number that the
     client sends through the control connection to the server with its own
     address and proxy port, where it listens for the data connection.	When
     the server opens the data connection back to this port, the proxy for-
     wards it to the client.  The pf.conf(5) rules need to let pass connec-
     tions to these proxy ports (see options -u, -m, and -M above) in on the
     external interface.  The following example allows only ports 49152 to
     65535 to pass in statefully:

	   block in on $ext_if proto tcp all
	   pass  in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to $ext_if \
	       user proxy keep state

     These examples do not cover the connections from the proxy to the foreign
     FTP server.  If one does not pass outgoing connections by default addi-
     tional rules are needed.

SEE ALSO

     ftp(1), pf(4), hosts.allow(5), hosts.deny(5), inetd.conf(5), pf.conf(5),
     inetd(8), pfctl(8), syslogd(8)

BUGS

     Extended Passive mode (EPSV) is not supported by the proxy and will not
     work unless the proxy is run in network address translation mode.	When
     not in network address translation mode, the proxy returns an error to
     the client, hopefully forcing the client to revert to passive mode (PASV)
     which is supported.  EPSV will work in network address translation mode,
     assuming a pf.conf(5) setup which allows the EPSV connections through to
     their destinations.

     IPv6 is not yet supported.

FreeBSD 5.4			August 17, 2001 		   FreeBSD 5.4

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