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37.\" $OpenBSD: sshd.8,v 1.237 2007/06/07 19:37:34 pvalchev Exp $
38.Dd $Mdocdate: August 16 2007 $
39.Dt SSHD 8
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm sshd
43.Nd OpenSSH SSH daemon
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Nm sshd
46.Bk -words
47.Op Fl 46Ddeiqt
48.Op Fl b Ar bits
49.Op Fl f Ar config_file
50.Op Fl g Ar login_grace_time
51.Op Fl h Ar host_key_file
52.Op Fl k Ar key_gen_time
53.Op Fl o Ar option
54.Op Fl p Ar port
55.Op Fl u Ar len
56.Ek
57.Sh DESCRIPTION
58.Nm
59(OpenSSH Daemon) is the daemon program for
60.Xr ssh 1 .
61Together these programs replace
62.Xr rlogin 1
63and
64.Xr rsh 1 ,
65and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts
66over an insecure network.
67.Pp
68.Nm
69listens for connections from clients.
70It is normally started at boot from
71.Pa /etc/rc .
72It forks a new
73daemon for each incoming connection.
74The forked daemons handle
75key exchange, encryption, authentication, command execution,
76and data exchange.
77.Pp
78.Nm
79can be configured using command-line options or a configuration file
80(by default
81.Xr sshd_config 5 ) ;
82command-line options override values specified in the
83configuration file.
84.Nm
85rereads its configuration file when it receives a hangup signal,
86.Dv SIGHUP ,
87by executing itself with the name and options it was started with, e.g.\&
88.Pa /usr/sbin/sshd .
89.Pp
90The options are as follows:
91.Bl -tag -width Ds
92.It Fl 4
93Forces
94.Nm
95to use IPv4 addresses only.
96.It Fl 6
97Forces
98.Nm
99to use IPv6 addresses only.
100.It Fl b Ar bits
101Specifies the number of bits in the ephemeral protocol version 1
102server key (default 768).
103.It Fl D
104When this option is specified,
105.Nm
106will not detach and does not become a daemon.
107This allows easy monitoring of
108.Nm sshd .
109.It Fl d
110Debug mode.
111The server sends verbose debug output to the system
112log, and does not put itself in the background.
113The server also will not fork and will only process one connection.
114This option is only intended for debugging for the server.
115Multiple
116.Fl d
117options increase the debugging level.
118Maximum is 3.
119.It Fl e
120When this option is specified,
121.Nm
122will send the output to the standard error instead of the system log.
123.It Fl f Ar config_file
124Specifies the name of the configuration file.
125The default is
126.Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config .
127.Nm
128refuses to start if there is no configuration file.
129.It Fl g Ar login_grace_time
130Gives the grace time for clients to authenticate themselves (default
131120 seconds).
132If the client fails to authenticate the user within
133this many seconds, the server disconnects and exits.
134A value of zero indicates no limit.
135.It Fl h Ar host_key_file
136Specifies a file from which a host key is read.
137This option must be given if
138.Nm
139is not run as root (as the normal
140host key files are normally not readable by anyone but root).
141The default is
142.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
143for protocol version 1, and
144.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
145and
146.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
147for protocol version 2.
148It is possible to have multiple host key files for
149the different protocol versions and host key algorithms.
150.It Fl i
151Specifies that
152.Nm
153is being run from
154.Xr inetd 8 .
155.Nm
156is normally not run
157from inetd because it needs to generate the server key before it can
158respond to the client, and this may take tens of seconds.
159Clients would have to wait too long if the key was regenerated every time.
160However, with small key sizes (e.g. 512) using
161.Nm
162from inetd may
163be feasible.
164.It Fl k Ar key_gen_time
165Specifies how often the ephemeral protocol version 1 server key is
166regenerated (default 3600 seconds, or one hour).
167The motivation for regenerating the key fairly
168often is that the key is not stored anywhere, and after about an hour
169it becomes impossible to recover the key for decrypting intercepted
170communications even if the machine is cracked into or physically
171seized.
172A value of zero indicates that the key will never be regenerated.
173.It Fl o Ar option
174Can be used to give options in the format used in the configuration file.
175This is useful for specifying options for which there is no separate
176command-line flag.
177For full details of the options, and their values, see
178.Xr sshd_config 5 .
179.It Fl p Ar port
180Specifies the port on which the server listens for connections
181(default 22).
182Multiple port options are permitted.
183Ports specified in the configuration file with the
184.Cm Port
185option are ignored when a command-line port is specified.
186Ports specified using the
187.Cm ListenAddress
188option override command-line ports.
189.It Fl q
190Quiet mode.
191Nothing is sent to the system log.
192Normally the beginning,
193authentication, and termination of each connection is logged.
194.It Fl t
195Test mode.
196Only check the validity of the configuration file and sanity of the keys.
197This is useful for updating
198.Nm
199reliably as configuration options may change.
200.It Fl u Ar len
201This option is used to specify the size of the field
202in the
203.Li utmp
204structure that holds the remote host name.
205If the resolved host name is longer than
206.Ar len ,
207the dotted decimal value will be used instead.
208This allows hosts with very long host names that
209overflow this field to still be uniquely identified.
210Specifying
211.Fl u0
212indicates that only dotted decimal addresses
213should be put into the
214.Pa utmp
215file.
216.Fl u0
217may also be used to prevent
218.Nm
219from making DNS requests unless the authentication
220mechanism or configuration requires it.
221Authentication mechanisms that may require DNS include
222.Cm RhostsRSAAuthentication ,
223.Cm HostbasedAuthentication ,
224and using a
225.Cm from="pattern-list"
226option in a key file.
227Configuration options that require DNS include using a
228USER@HOST pattern in
229.Cm AllowUsers
230or
231.Cm DenyUsers .
232.El
233.Sh AUTHENTICATION
234The OpenSSH SSH daemon supports SSH protocols 1 and 2.
235Both protocols are supported by default,
236though this can be changed via the
237.Cm Protocol
238option in
239.Xr sshd_config 5 .
240Protocol 2 supports both RSA and DSA keys;
241protocol 1 only supports RSA keys.
242For both protocols,
243each host has a host-specific key,
244normally 2048 bits,
245used to identify the host.
246.Pp
247Forward security for protocol 1 is provided through
248an additional server key,
249normally 768 bits,
250generated when the server starts.
251This key is normally regenerated every hour if it has been used, and
252is never stored on disk.
253Whenever a client connects, the daemon responds with its public
254host and server keys.
255The client compares the
256RSA host key against its own database to verify that it has not changed.
257The client then generates a 256-bit random number.
258It encrypts this
259random number using both the host key and the server key, and sends
260the encrypted number to the server.
261Both sides then use this
262random number as a session key which is used to encrypt all further
263communications in the session.
264The rest of the session is encrypted
265using a conventional cipher, currently Blowfish or 3DES, with 3DES
266being used by default.
267The client selects the encryption algorithm
268to use from those offered by the server.
269.Pp
270For protocol 2,
271forward security is provided through a Diffie-Hellman key agreement.
272This key agreement results in a shared session key.
273The rest of the session is encrypted using a symmetric cipher, currently
274128-bit AES, Blowfish, 3DES, CAST128, Arcfour, 192-bit AES, or 256-bit AES.
275The client selects the encryption algorithm
276to use from those offered by the server.
277Additionally, session integrity is provided
278through a cryptographic message authentication code
279(hmac-md5, hmac-sha1, umac-64 or hmac-ripemd160).
280.Pp
281Finally, the server and the client enter an authentication dialog.
282The client tries to authenticate itself using
283host-based authentication,
284public key authentication,
285challenge-response authentication,
286or password authentication.
287.Pp
288Regardless of the authentication type, the account is checked to
289ensure that it is accessible. An account is not accessible if it is
290locked, listed in
291.Cm DenyUsers
292or its group is listed in
293.Cm DenyGroups
294\&. The definition of a locked account is system dependant. Some platforms
295have their own account database (eg AIX) and some modify the passwd field (
296.Ql \&*LK\&*
297on Solaris and UnixWare,
298.Ql \&*
299on HP-UX, containing
300.Ql Nologin
301on Tru64,
302a leading
303.Ql \&*LOCKED\&*
304on FreeBSD and a leading
305.Ql \&!
306on most Linuxes).
307If there is a requirement to disable password authentication
308for the account while allowing still public-key, then the passwd field
309should be set to something other than these values (eg
310.Ql NP
311or
312.Ql \&*NP\&*
313).
314.Pp
315If the client successfully authenticates itself, a dialog for
316preparing the session is entered.
317At this time the client may request
318things like allocating a pseudo-tty, forwarding X11 connections,
319forwarding TCP connections, or forwarding the authentication agent
320connection over the secure channel.
321.Pp
322After this, the client either requests a shell or execution of a command.
323The sides then enter session mode.
324In this mode, either side may send
325data at any time, and such data is forwarded to/from the shell or
326command on the server side, and the user terminal in the client side.
327.Pp
328When the user program terminates and all forwarded X11 and other
329connections have been closed, the server sends command exit status to
330the client, and both sides exit.
331.Sh LOGIN PROCESS
332When a user successfully logs in,
333.Nm
334does the following:
335.Bl -enum -offset indent
336.It
337If the login is on a tty, and no command has been specified,
338prints last login time and
339.Pa /etc/motd
340(unless prevented in the configuration file or by
341.Pa ~/.hushlogin ;
342see the
343.Sx FILES
344section).
345.It
346If the login is on a tty, records login time.
347.It
348Checks
349.Pa /etc/nologin ;
350if it exists, prints contents and quits
351(unless root).
352.It
353Changes to run with normal user privileges.
354.It
355Sets up basic environment.
356.It
357Reads the file
358.Pa ~/.ssh/environment ,
359if it exists, and users are allowed to change their environment.
360See the
361.Cm PermitUserEnvironment
362option in
363.Xr sshd_config 5 .
364.It
365Changes to user's home directory.
366.It
367If
368.Pa ~/.ssh/rc
369exists, runs it; else if
370.Pa /etc/ssh/sshrc
371exists, runs
372it; otherwise runs xauth.
373The
374.Dq rc
375files are given the X11
376authentication protocol and cookie in standard input.
377See
378.Sx SSHRC ,
379below.
380.It
381Runs user's shell or command.
382.El
383.Sh SSHRC
384If the file
385.Pa ~/.ssh/rc
386exists,
387.Xr sh 1
388runs it after reading the
389environment files but before starting the user's shell or command.
390It must not produce any output on stdout; stderr must be used
391instead.
392If X11 forwarding is in use, it will receive the "proto cookie" pair in
393its standard input (and
394.Ev DISPLAY
395in its environment).
396The script must call
397.Xr xauth 1
398because
399.Nm
400will not run xauth automatically to add X11 cookies.
401.Pp
402The primary purpose of this file is to run any initialization routines
403which may be needed before the user's home directory becomes
404accessible; AFS is a particular example of such an environment.
405.Pp
406This file will probably contain some initialization code followed by
407something similar to:
408.Bd -literal -offset 3n
409if read proto cookie && [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
410 if [ `echo $DISPLAY | cut -c1-10` = 'localhost:' ]; then
411 # X11UseLocalhost=yes
412 echo add unix:`echo $DISPLAY |
413 cut -c11-` $proto $cookie
414 else
415 # X11UseLocalhost=no
416 echo add $DISPLAY $proto $cookie
417 fi | xauth -q -
418fi
419.Ed
420.Pp
421If this file does not exist,
422.Pa /etc/ssh/sshrc
423is run, and if that
424does not exist either, xauth is used to add the cookie.
425.Sh AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT
426.Cm AuthorizedKeysFile
427specifies the file containing public keys for
428public key authentication;
429if none is specified, the default is
430.Pa ~/.ssh/authorized_keys .
431Each line of the file contains one
432key (empty lines and lines starting with a
433.Ql #
434are ignored as
435comments).
436Protocol 1 public keys consist of the following space-separated fields:
437options, bits, exponent, modulus, comment.
438Protocol 2 public key consist of:
439options, keytype, base64-encoded key, comment.
440The options field is optional;
441its presence is determined by whether the line starts
442with a number or not (the options field never starts with a number).
443The bits, exponent, modulus, and comment fields give the RSA key for
444protocol version 1; the
445comment field is not used for anything (but may be convenient for the
446user to identify the key).
447For protocol version 2 the keytype is
448.Dq ssh-dss
449or
450.Dq ssh-rsa .
451.Pp
452Note that lines in this file are usually several hundred bytes long
453(because of the size of the public key encoding) up to a limit of
4548 kilobytes, which permits DSA keys up to 8 kilobits and RSA
455keys up to 16 kilobits.
456You don't want to type them in; instead, copy the
457.Pa identity.pub ,
458.Pa id_dsa.pub ,
459or the
460.Pa id_rsa.pub
461file and edit it.
462.Pp
463.Nm
464enforces a minimum RSA key modulus size for protocol 1
465and protocol 2 keys of 768 bits.
466.Pp
467The options (if present) consist of comma-separated option
468specifications.
469No spaces are permitted, except within double quotes.
470The following option specifications are supported (note
471that option keywords are case-insensitive):
472.Bl -tag -width Ds
473.It Cm command="command"
474Specifies that the command is executed whenever this key is used for
475authentication.
476The command supplied by the user (if any) is ignored.
477The command is run on a pty if the client requests a pty;
478otherwise it is run without a tty.
479If an 8-bit clean channel is required,
480one must not request a pty or should specify
481.Cm no-pty .
482A quote may be included in the command by quoting it with a backslash.
483This option might be useful
484to restrict certain public keys to perform just a specific operation.
485An example might be a key that permits remote backups but nothing else.
486Note that the client may specify TCP and/or X11
487forwarding unless they are explicitly prohibited.
488The command originally supplied by the client is available in the
489.Ev SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
490environment variable.
491Note that this option applies to shell, command or subsystem execution.
492.It Cm environment="NAME=value"
493Specifies that the string is to be added to the environment when
494logging in using this key.
495Environment variables set this way
496override other default environment values.
497Multiple options of this type are permitted.
498Environment processing is disabled by default and is
499controlled via the
500.Cm PermitUserEnvironment
501option.
502This option is automatically disabled if
503.Cm UseLogin
504is enabled.
505.It Cm from="pattern-list"
506Specifies that in addition to public key authentication, the canonical name
507of the remote host must be present in the comma-separated list of
508patterns.
509The purpose
510of this option is to optionally increase security: public key authentication
511by itself does not trust the network or name servers or anything (but
512the key); however, if somebody somehow steals the key, the key
513permits an intruder to log in from anywhere in the world.
514This additional option makes using a stolen key more difficult (name
515servers and/or routers would have to be compromised in addition to
516just the key).
517.Pp
518See
519.Sx PATTERNS
520in
521.Xr ssh_config 5
522for more information on patterns.
523.It Cm no-agent-forwarding
524Forbids authentication agent forwarding when this key is used for
525authentication.
526.It Cm no-port-forwarding
527Forbids TCP forwarding when this key is used for authentication.
528Any port forward requests by the client will return an error.
529This might be used, e.g. in connection with the
530.Cm command
531option.
532.It Cm no-pty
533Prevents tty allocation (a request to allocate a pty will fail).
534.It Cm no-X11-forwarding
535Forbids X11 forwarding when this key is used for authentication.
536Any X11 forward requests by the client will return an error.
537.It Cm permitopen="host:port"
538Limit local
539.Li ``ssh -L''
540port forwarding such that it may only connect to the specified host and
541port.
542IPv6 addresses can be specified with an alternative syntax:
543.Ar host Ns / Ns Ar port .
544Multiple
545.Cm permitopen
546options may be applied separated by commas.
547No pattern matching is performed on the specified hostnames,
548they must be literal domains or addresses.
549.It Cm tunnel="n"
550Force a
551.Xr tun 4
552device on the server.
553Without this option, the next available device will be used if
554the client requests a tunnel.
555.El
556.Pp
557An example authorized_keys file:
558.Bd -literal -offset 3n
559# Comments allowed at start of line
560ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza...LiPk== user@example.net
561from="*.sales.example.net,!pc.sales.example.net" ssh-rsa
562AAAAB2...19Q== john@example.net
563command="dump /home",no-pty,no-port-forwarding ssh-dss
564AAAAC3...51R== example.net
565permitopen="192.0.2.1:80",permitopen="192.0.2.2:25" ssh-dss
566AAAAB5...21S==
567tunnel="0",command="sh /etc/netstart tun0" ssh-rsa AAAA...==
568jane@example.net
569.Ed
570.Sh SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS FILE FORMAT
571The
572.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
573and
574.Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts
575files contain host public keys for all known hosts.
576The global file should
577be prepared by the administrator (optional), and the per-user file is
578maintained automatically: whenever the user connects from an unknown host,
579its key is added to the per-user file.
580.Pp
581Each line in these files contains the following fields: hostnames,
582bits, exponent, modulus, comment.
583The fields are separated by spaces.
584.Pp
585Hostnames is a comma-separated list of patterns
586.Pf ( Ql *
587and
588.Ql \&?
589act as
590wildcards); each pattern in turn is matched against the canonical host
591name (when authenticating a client) or against the user-supplied
592name (when authenticating a server).
593A pattern may also be preceded by
594.Ql \&!
595to indicate negation: if the host name matches a negated
596pattern, it is not accepted (by that line) even if it matched another
597pattern on the line.
598A hostname or address may optionally be enclosed within
599.Ql \&[
600and
601.Ql \&]
602brackets then followed by
603.Ql \&:
604and a non-standard port number.
605.Pp
606Alternately, hostnames may be stored in a hashed form which hides host names
607and addresses should the file's contents be disclosed.
608Hashed hostnames start with a
609.Ql |
610character.
611Only one hashed hostname may appear on a single line and none of the above
612negation or wildcard operators may be applied.
613.Pp
614Bits, exponent, and modulus are taken directly from the RSA host key; they
615can be obtained, for example, from
616.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub .
617The optional comment field continues to the end of the line, and is not used.
618.Pp
619Lines starting with
620.Ql #
621and empty lines are ignored as comments.
622.Pp
623When performing host authentication, authentication is accepted if any
624matching line has the proper key.
625It is thus permissible (but not
626recommended) to have several lines or different host keys for the same
627names.
628This will inevitably happen when short forms of host names
629from different domains are put in the file.
630It is possible
631that the files contain conflicting information; authentication is
632accepted if valid information can be found from either file.
633.Pp
634Note that the lines in these files are typically hundreds of characters
635long, and you definitely don't want to type in the host keys by hand.
636Rather, generate them by a script
637or by taking
638.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
639and adding the host names at the front.
640.Pp
641An example ssh_known_hosts file:
642.Bd -literal -offset 3n
643# Comments allowed at start of line
644closenet,...,192.0.2.53 1024 37 159...93 closenet.example.net
645cvs.example.net,192.0.2.10 ssh-rsa AAAA1234.....=
646# A hashed hostname
647|1|JfKTdBh7rNbXkVAQCRp4OQoPfmI=|USECr3SWf1JUPsms5AqfD5QfxkM= ssh-rsa
648AAAA1234.....=
649.Ed
650.Sh FILES
651.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
652.It ~/.hushlogin
653This file is used to suppress printing the last login time and
654.Pa /etc/motd ,
655if
656.Cm PrintLastLog
657and
658.Cm PrintMotd ,
659respectively,
660are enabled.
661It does not suppress printing of the banner specified by
662.Cm Banner .
663.Pp
664.It ~/.rhosts
665This file is used for host-based authentication (see
666.Xr ssh 1
667for more information).
668On some machines this file may need to be
669world-readable if the user's home directory is on an NFS partition,
670because
671.Nm
672reads it as root.
673Additionally, this file must be owned by the user,
674and must not have write permissions for anyone else.
675The recommended
676permission for most machines is read/write for the user, and not
677accessible by others.
678.Pp
679.It ~/.shosts
680This file is used in exactly the same way as
681.Pa .rhosts ,
682but allows host-based authentication without permitting login with
683rlogin/rsh.
684.Pp
685.It ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
686Lists the public keys (RSA/DSA) that can be used for logging in as this user.
687The format of this file is described above.
688The content of the file is not highly sensitive, but the recommended
689permissions are read/write for the user, and not accessible by others.
690.Pp
691If this file, the
692.Pa ~/.ssh
693directory, or the user's home directory are writable
694by other users, then the file could be modified or replaced by unauthorized
695users.
696In this case,
697.Nm
698will not allow it to be used unless the
699.Cm StrictModes
700option has been set to
701.Dq no .
702The recommended permissions can be set by executing
703.Dq chmod go-w ~/ ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/authorized_keys .
704.Pp
705.It ~/.ssh/environment
706This file is read into the environment at login (if it exists).
707It can only contain empty lines, comment lines (that start with
708.Ql # ) ,
709and assignment lines of the form name=value.
710The file should be writable
711only by the user; it need not be readable by anyone else.
712Environment processing is disabled by default and is
713controlled via the
714.Cm PermitUserEnvironment
715option.
716.Pp
717.It ~/.ssh/known_hosts
718Contains a list of host keys for all hosts the user has logged into
719that are not already in the systemwide list of known host keys.
720The format of this file is described above.
721This file should be writable only by root/the owner and
722can, but need not be, world-readable.
723.Pp
724.It ~/.ssh/rc
725Contains initialization routines to be run before
726the user's home directory becomes accessible.
727This file should be writable only by the user, and need not be
728readable by anyone else.
729.Pp
730.It /etc/hosts.allow
731.It /etc/hosts.deny
732Access controls that should be enforced by tcp-wrappers are defined here.
733Further details are described in
734.Xr hosts_access 5 .
735.Pp
736.It /etc/hosts.equiv
737This file is for host-based authentication (see
738.Xr ssh 1 ) .
739It should only be writable by root.
740.Pp
741.It /etc/moduli
742Contains Diffie-Hellman groups used for the "Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange".
743The file format is described in
744.Xr moduli 5 .
745.Pp
746.It /etc/motd
747See
748.Xr motd 5 .
749.Pp
750.It /etc/nologin
751If this file exists,
752.Nm
753refuses to let anyone except root log in.
754The contents of the file
755are displayed to anyone trying to log in, and non-root connections are
756refused.
757The file should be world-readable.
758.Pp
759.It /etc/shosts.equiv
760This file is used in exactly the same way as
761.Pa hosts.equiv ,
762but allows host-based authentication without permitting login with
763rlogin/rsh.
764.Pp
765.It /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
766.It /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
767.It /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
768These three files contain the private parts of the host keys.
769These files should only be owned by root, readable only by root, and not
770accessible to others.
771Note that
772.Nm
773does not start if these files are group/world-accessible.
774.Pp
775.It /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
776.It /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
777.It /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
778These three files contain the public parts of the host keys.
779These files should be world-readable but writable only by
780root.
781Their contents should match the respective private parts.
782These files are not
783really used for anything; they are provided for the convenience of
784the user so their contents can be copied to known hosts files.
785These files are created using
786.Xr ssh-keygen 1 .
787.Pp
788.It /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
789Systemwide list of known host keys.
790This file should be prepared by the
791system administrator to contain the public host keys of all machines in the
792organization.
793The format of this file is described above.
794This file should be writable only by root/the owner and
795should be world-readable.
796.Pp
797.It /etc/ssh/sshd_config
798Contains configuration data for
799.Nm sshd .
800The file format and configuration options are described in
801.Xr sshd_config 5 .
802.Pp
803.It /etc/ssh/sshrc
804Similar to
805.Pa ~/.ssh/rc ,
806it can be used to specify
807machine-specific login-time initializations globally.
808This file should be writable only by root, and should be world-readable.
809.Pp
810.It /var/empty
811.Xr chroot 2
812directory used by
813.Nm
814during privilege separation in the pre-authentication phase.
815The directory should not contain any files and must be owned by root
816and not group or world-writable.
817.Pp
818.It /var/run/sshd.pid
819Contains the process ID of the
820.Nm
821listening for connections (if there are several daemons running
822concurrently for different ports, this contains the process ID of the one
823started last).
824The content of this file is not sensitive; it can be world-readable.
825.El
826.Sh SEE ALSO
827.Xr scp 1 ,
828.Xr sftp 1 ,
829.Xr ssh 1 ,
830.Xr ssh-add 1 ,
831.Xr ssh-agent 1 ,
832.Xr ssh-keygen 1 ,
833.Xr ssh-keyscan 1 ,
834.Xr chroot 2 ,
835.Xr hosts_access 5 ,
836.Xr login.conf 5 ,
837.Xr moduli 5 ,
838.Xr sshd_config 5 ,
839.Xr inetd 8 ,
840.Xr sftp-server 8
841.Sh AUTHORS
842OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free
843ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.
844Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
845Theo de Raadt and Dug Song
846removed many bugs, re-added newer features and
847created OpenSSH.
848Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
849protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.
850Niels Provos and Markus Friedl contributed support
851for privilege separation.
852.Sh CAVEATS
853System security is not improved unless
854.Nm rshd ,
855.Nm rlogind ,
856and
857.Nm rexecd
858are disabled (thus completely disabling
859.Xr rlogin
860and
861.Xr rsh
862into the machine).
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