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38 .Dd $Mdocdate: February 22 2009 $
43 .Nd OpenSSH SSH client configuration files
46 .Nm /etc/ssh/ssh_config
49 obtains configuration data from the following sources in
52 .Bl -enum -offset indent -compact
56 user's configuration file
59 GSSAPI configuration file
60 .Pq Pa $HOME/.ssh/config.gssapi
62 Kerberos configuration file
63 .Pq Pa $HOME/.ssh/config.krb
65 system-wide configuration file
66 .Pq Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config
69 For each parameter, the first obtained value
71 The configuration files contain sections separated by
73 specifications, and that section is only applied for hosts that
74 match one of the patterns given in the specification.
75 The matched host name is the one given on the command line.
77 Since the first obtained value for each parameter is used, more
78 host-specific declarations should be given near the beginning of the
79 file, and general defaults at the end.
81 The configuration file has the following format:
83 Empty lines and lines starting with
86 Otherwise a line is of the format
87 .Dq keyword arguments .
88 Configuration options may be separated by whitespace or
89 optional whitespace and exactly one
91 the latter format is useful to avoid the need to quote whitespace
92 when specifying configuration options using the
99 Arguments may optionally be enclosed in double quotes
101 in order to represent arguments containing spaces.
104 keywords and their meanings are as follows (note that
105 keywords are case-insensitive and arguments are case-sensitive):
108 Restricts the following declarations (up to the next
110 keyword) to be only for those hosts that match one of the patterns
111 given after the keyword.
112 If more than one pattern is provided, they should be separated by whitespace.
115 as a pattern can be used to provide global
116 defaults for all hosts.
119 argument given on the command line (i.e. the name is not converted to
120 a canonicalized host name before matching).
124 for more information on patterns.
126 Specifies which address family to use when connecting.
136 passphrase/password querying will be disabled.
137 This option is useful in scripts and other batch jobs where no user
138 is present to supply the password.
146 Use the specified address on the local machine as the source address of
148 Only useful on systems with more than one address.
149 Note that this option does not work if
150 .Cm UsePrivilegedPort
153 .It Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication
154 Specifies whether to use challenge-response authentication.
155 The argument to this keyword must be
162 If this flag is set to
165 will additionally check the host IP address in the
168 This allows ssh to detect if a host key changed due to DNS spoofing.
169 If the option is set to
171 the check will not be executed.
175 Specifies the cipher to use for encrypting the session
176 in protocol version 1.
184 is only supported in the
186 client for interoperability with legacy protocol 1 implementations
187 that do not support the
190 Its use is strongly discouraged due to cryptographic weaknesses.
194 Specifies the ciphers allowed for protocol version 2
195 in order of preference.
196 Multiple ciphers must be comma-separated.
197 The supported ciphers are
212 .Bd -literal -offset 3n
213 aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,arcfour256,arcfour128,
214 aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,aes192-cbc,
217 .It Cm ClearAllForwardings
218 Specifies that all local, remote, and dynamic port forwardings
219 specified in the configuration files or on the command line be
221 This option is primarily useful when used from the
223 command line to clear port forwardings set in
224 configuration files, and is automatically set by
235 Specifies whether to use compression.
242 .It Cm CompressionLevel
243 Specifies the compression level to use if compression is enabled.
244 The argument must be an integer from 1 (fast) to 9 (slow, best).
245 The default level is 6, which is good for most applications.
246 The meaning of the values is the same as in
248 Note that this option applies to protocol version 1 only.
249 .It Cm ConnectionAttempts
250 Specifies the number of tries (one per second) to make before exiting.
251 The argument must be an integer.
252 This may be useful in scripts if the connection sometimes fails.
254 .It Cm ConnectTimeout
255 Specifies the timeout (in seconds) used when connecting to the
256 SSH server, instead of using the default system TCP timeout.
257 This value is used only when the target is down or really unreachable,
258 not when it refuses the connection.
260 Enables the sharing of multiple sessions over a single network connection.
264 will listen for connections on a control socket specified using the
267 Additional sessions can connect to this socket using the same
274 These sessions will try to reuse the master instance's network connection
275 rather than initiating new ones, but will fall back to connecting normally
276 if the control socket does not exist, or is not listening.
281 to listen for control connections, but require confirmation using the
283 program before they are accepted (see
289 ssh will continue without connecting to a master instance.
293 forwarding is supported over these multiplexed connections, however the
294 display and agent forwarded will be the one belonging to the master
295 connection i.e. it is not possible to forward multiple displays or agents.
297 Two additional options allow for opportunistic multiplexing: try to use a
298 master connection but fall back to creating a new one if one does not already
304 The latter requires confirmation like the
308 Specify the path to the control socket used for connection sharing as described
311 section above or the string
313 to disable connection sharing.
316 will be substituted by the local host name,
318 will be substituted by the target host name,
322 by the remote login username.
323 It is recommended that any
325 used for opportunistic connection sharing include
326 at least %h, %p, and %r.
327 This ensures that shared connections are uniquely identified.
328 .It Cm DynamicForward
329 Specifies that a TCP port on the local machine be forwarded
330 over the secure channel, and the application
331 protocol is then used to determine where to connect to from the
336 .Oo Ar bind_address : Oc Ar port .
338 IPv6 addresses can be specified by enclosing addresses in square brackets or
339 by using an alternative syntax:
340 .Oo Ar bind_address Ns / Oc Ns Ar port .
341 By default, the local port is bound in accordance with the
346 may be used to bind the connection to a specific address.
351 indicates that the listening port be bound for local use only, while an
354 indicates that the port should be available from all interfaces.
356 Currently the SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 protocols are supported, and
358 will act as a SOCKS server.
359 Multiple forwardings may be specified, and
360 additional forwardings can be given on the command line.
361 Only the superuser can forward privileged ports.
362 .It Cm EnableSSHKeysign
363 Setting this option to
365 in the global client configuration file
366 .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config
367 enables the use of the helper program
370 .Cm HostbasedAuthentication .
377 This option should be placed in the non-hostspecific section.
380 for more information.
382 Sets the escape character (default:
384 The escape character can also
385 be set on the command line.
386 The argument should be a single character,
388 followed by a letter, or
390 to disable the escape
391 character entirely (making the connection transparent for binary
393 .It Cm ExitOnForwardFailure
396 should terminate the connection if it cannot set up all requested
397 dynamic, tunnel, local, and remote port forwardings.
405 Specifies whether the connection to the authentication agent (if any)
406 will be forwarded to the remote machine.
414 Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution.
415 Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host
416 (for the agent's Unix-domain socket)
417 can access the local agent through the forwarded connection.
418 An attacker cannot obtain key material from the agent,
419 however they can perform operations on the keys that enable them to
420 authenticate using the identities loaded into the agent.
422 Specifies whether X11 connections will be automatically redirected
423 over the secure channel and
433 X11 forwarding should be enabled with caution.
434 Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host
435 (for the user's X11 authorization database)
436 can access the local X11 display through the forwarded connection.
437 An attacker may then be able to perform activities such as keystroke monitoring
439 .Cm ForwardX11Trusted
440 option is also enabled.
441 .It Cm ForwardX11Trusted
442 If this option is set to
444 remote X11 clients will have full access to the original X11 display.
446 If this option is set to
448 remote X11 clients will be considered untrusted and prevented
449 from stealing or tampering with data belonging to trusted X11
453 token used for the session will be set to expire after 20 minutes.
454 Remote clients will be refused access after this time.
459 See the X11 SECURITY extension specification for full details on
460 the restrictions imposed on untrusted clients.
462 Specifies whether remote hosts are allowed to connect to local
466 binds local port forwardings to the loopback address.
467 This prevents other remote hosts from connecting to forwarded ports.
469 can be used to specify that ssh
470 should bind local port forwardings to the wildcard address,
471 thus allowing remote hosts to connect to forwarded ports.
478 .It Cm GlobalKnownHostsFile
479 Specifies a file to use for the global
480 host key database instead of
481 .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts .
482 .It Cm GSSAPIAuthentication
483 Specifies whether user authentication based on GSSAPI is allowed.
486 Note that this option applies to protocol version 2 only.
487 .It Cm GSSAPIKeyExchange
488 Specifies whether key exchange based on GSSAPI may be used. When using
489 GSSAPI key exchange the server need not have a host key.
492 Note that this option applies to protocol version 2 only.
493 .It Cm GSSAPIClientIdentity
494 If set, specifies the GSSAPI client identity that ssh should use when
495 connecting to the server. The default is unset, which means that the default
496 identity will be used.
497 .It Cm GSSAPIDelegateCredentials
498 Forward (delegate) credentials to the server.
501 Note that this option applies to protocol version 2 connections using GSSAPI.
502 .It Cm GSSAPIRenewalForcesRekey
505 then renewal of the client's GSSAPI credentials will force the rekeying of the
506 ssh connection. With a compatible server, this can delegate the renewed
507 credentials to a session on the server.
510 .It Cm GSSAPITrustDns
512 .Dq yes to indicate that the DNS is trusted to securely canonicalize
513 the name of the host being connected to. If
514 .Dq no, the hostname entered on the
515 command line will be passed untouched to the GSSAPI library.
518 This option only applies to protocol version 2 connections using GSSAPI.
519 .It Cm HashKnownHosts
522 should hash host names and addresses when they are added to
523 .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts .
524 These hashed names may be used normally by
528 but they do not reveal identifying information should the file's contents
532 Note that existing names and addresses in known hosts files
533 will not be converted automatically,
534 but may be manually hashed using
536 .It Cm HostbasedAuthentication
537 Specifies whether to try rhosts based authentication with public key
545 This option applies to protocol version 2 only and
547 .Cm RhostsRSAAuthentication .
548 .It Cm HostKeyAlgorithms
549 Specifies the protocol version 2 host key algorithms
550 that the client wants to use in order of preference.
551 The default for this option is:
552 .Dq ssh-rsa,ssh-dss .
554 Specifies an alias that should be used instead of the
555 real host name when looking up or saving the host key
556 in the host key database files.
557 This option is useful for tunneling SSH connections
558 or for multiple servers running on a single host.
560 Specifies the real host name to log into.
561 This can be used to specify nicknames or abbreviations for hosts.
562 The default is the name given on the command line.
563 Numeric IP addresses are also permitted (both on the command line and in
566 .It Cm IdentitiesOnly
569 should only use the authentication identity files configured in the
574 offers more identities.
575 The argument to this keyword must be
579 This option is intended for situations where ssh-agent
580 offers many different identities.
584 Specifies a file from which the user's RSA or DSA authentication identity
588 for protocol version 1, and
592 for protocol version 2.
593 Additionally, any identities represented by the authentication agent
594 will be used for authentication.
596 The file name may use the tilde
597 syntax to refer to a user's home directory or one of the following
600 (local user's home directory),
606 (remote host name) or
610 It is possible to have
611 multiple identity files specified in configuration files; all these
612 identities will be tried in sequence.
613 .It Cm KbdInteractiveAuthentication
614 Specifies whether to use keyboard-interactive authentication.
615 The argument to this keyword must be
621 .It Cm KbdInteractiveDevices
622 Specifies the list of methods to use in keyboard-interactive authentication.
623 Multiple method names must be comma-separated.
624 The default is to use the server specified list.
625 The methods available vary depending on what the server supports.
626 For an OpenSSH server,
627 it may be zero or more of:
633 Specifies a command to execute on the local machine after successfully
634 connecting to the server.
635 The command string extends to the end of the line, and is executed with
637 The following escape character substitutions will be performed:
639 (local user's home directory),
645 (host name as provided on the command line),
649 (remote user name) or
652 This directive is ignored unless
653 .Cm PermitLocalCommand
656 Specifies that a TCP port on the local machine be forwarded over
657 the secure channel to the specified host and port from the remote machine.
658 The first argument must be
660 .Oo Ar bind_address : Oc Ar port
662 and the second argument must be
663 .Ar host : Ns Ar hostport .
664 IPv6 addresses can be specified by enclosing addresses in square brackets or
665 by using an alternative syntax:
666 .Oo Ar bind_address Ns / Oc Ns Ar port
668 .Ar host Ns / Ns Ar hostport .
669 Multiple forwardings may be specified, and additional forwardings can be
670 given on the command line.
671 Only the superuser can forward privileged ports.
672 By default, the local port is bound in accordance with the
677 may be used to bind the connection to a specific address.
682 indicates that the listening port be bound for local use only, while an
685 indicates that the port should be available from all interfaces.
687 Gives the verbosity level that is used when logging messages from
689 The possible values are:
690 QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1, DEBUG2, and DEBUG3.
692 DEBUG and DEBUG1 are equivalent.
693 DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of verbose output.
695 Specifies the MAC (message authentication code) algorithms
696 in order of preference.
697 The MAC algorithm is used in protocol version 2
698 for data integrity protection.
699 Multiple algorithms must be comma-separated.
701 .Bd -literal -offset indent
702 hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac-64@openssh.com,
703 hmac-ripemd160,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96
705 .It Cm NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost
706 This option can be used if the home directory is shared across machines.
707 In this case localhost will refer to a different machine on each of
708 the machines and the user will get many warnings about changed host keys.
709 However, this option disables host authentication for localhost.
710 The argument to this keyword must be
714 The default is to check the host key for localhost.
715 .It Cm NumberOfPasswordPrompts
716 Specifies the number of password prompts before giving up.
717 The argument to this keyword must be an integer.
719 .It Cm PasswordAuthentication
720 Specifies whether to use password authentication.
721 The argument to this keyword must be
727 .It Cm PermitLocalCommand
728 Allow local command execution via the
731 .Ic !\& Ns Ar command
741 Specifies the port number to connect on the remote host.
743 .It Cm PreferredAuthentications
744 Specifies the order in which the client should try protocol 2
745 authentication methods.
746 This allows a client to prefer one method (e.g.\&
747 .Cm keyboard-interactive )
748 over another method (e.g.\&
750 The default for this option is:
756 keyboard-interactive,
760 Specifies the protocol versions
762 should support in order of preference.
763 The possible values are
767 Multiple versions must be comma-separated.
771 tries version 2 and falls back to version 1
772 if version 2 is not available.
774 Specifies the command to use to connect to the server.
776 string extends to the end of the line, and is executed with
778 In the command string,
780 will be substituted by the host name to
784 The command can be basically anything,
785 and should read from its standard input and write to its standard output.
786 It should eventually connect an
788 server running on some machine, or execute
791 Host key management will be done using the
792 HostName of the host being connected (defaulting to the name typed by
794 Setting the command to
796 disables this option entirely.
799 is not available for connects with a proxy command.
801 This directive is useful in conjunction with
803 and its proxy support.
804 For example, the following directive would connect via an HTTP proxy at
806 .Bd -literal -offset 3n
807 ProxyCommand /usr/bin/nc -X connect -x 192.0.2.0:8080 %h %p
809 .It Cm PubkeyAuthentication
810 Specifies whether to try public key authentication.
811 The argument to this keyword must be
817 This option applies to protocol version 2 only.
819 Specifies the maximum amount of data that may be transmitted before the
820 session key is renegotiated.
821 The argument is the number of bytes, with an optional suffix of
826 to indicate Kilobytes, Megabytes, or Gigabytes, respectively.
827 The default is between
831 depending on the cipher.
832 This option applies to protocol version 2 only.
834 Specifies that a TCP port on the remote machine be forwarded over
835 the secure channel to the specified host and port from the local machine.
836 The first argument must be
838 .Oo Ar bind_address : Oc Ar port
840 and the second argument must be
841 .Ar host : Ns Ar hostport .
842 IPv6 addresses can be specified by enclosing addresses in square brackets
843 or by using an alternative syntax:
844 .Oo Ar bind_address Ns / Oc Ns Ar port
846 .Ar host Ns / Ns Ar hostport .
847 Multiple forwardings may be specified, and additional
848 forwardings can be given on the command line.
849 Privileged ports can be forwarded only when
850 logging in as root on the remote machine.
856 the listen port will be dynamically allocated on the server and reported
857 to the client at run time.
861 is not specified, the default is to only bind to loopback addresses.
866 or an empty string, then the forwarding is requested to listen on all
870 will only succeed if the server's
872 option is enabled (see
873 .Xr sshd_config 5 ) .
874 .It Cm RhostsRSAAuthentication
875 Specifies whether to try rhosts based authentication with RSA host
883 This option applies to protocol version 1 only and requires
886 .It Cm RSAAuthentication
887 Specifies whether to try RSA authentication.
888 The argument to this keyword must be
892 RSA authentication will only be
893 attempted if the identity file exists, or an authentication agent is
897 Note that this option applies to protocol version 1 only.
899 Specifies what variables from the local
901 should be sent to the server.
902 Note that environment passing is only supported for protocol 2.
903 The server must also support it, and the server must be configured to
904 accept these environment variables.
909 for how to configure the server.
910 Variables are specified by name, which may contain wildcard characters.
911 Multiple environment variables may be separated by whitespace or spread
915 The default is not to send any environment variables.
919 for more information on patterns.
920 .It Cm ServerAliveCountMax
921 Sets the number of server alive messages (see below) which may be
924 receiving any messages back from the server.
925 If this threshold is reached while server alive messages are being sent,
926 ssh will disconnect from the server, terminating the session.
927 It is important to note that the use of server alive messages is very
931 The server alive messages are sent through the encrypted channel
932 and therefore will not be spoofable.
933 The TCP keepalive option enabled by
936 The server alive mechanism is valuable when the client or
937 server depend on knowing when a connection has become inactive.
939 The default value is 3.
941 .Cm ServerAliveInterval
942 (see below) is set to 15 and
943 .Cm ServerAliveCountMax
944 is left at the default, if the server becomes unresponsive,
945 ssh will disconnect after approximately 45 seconds.
946 This option applies to protocol version 2 only.
947 .It Cm ServerAliveInterval
948 Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has been received
951 will send a message through the encrypted
952 channel to request a response from the server.
954 is 0, indicating that these messages will not be sent to the server.
955 This option applies to protocol version 2 only.
956 .It Cm SmartcardDevice
957 Specifies which smartcard device to use.
958 The argument to this keyword is the device
960 should use to communicate with a smartcard used for storing the user's
962 By default, no device is specified and smartcard support is not activated.
963 .It Cm StrictHostKeyChecking
964 If this flag is set to
967 will never automatically add host keys to the
968 .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts
969 file, and refuses to connect to hosts whose host key has changed.
970 This provides maximum protection against trojan horse attacks,
971 though it can be annoying when the
972 .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
973 file is poorly maintained or when connections to new hosts are
975 This option forces the user to manually
977 If this flag is set to
979 ssh will automatically add new host keys to the
980 user known hosts files.
981 If this flag is set to
984 will be added to the user known host files only after the user
985 has confirmed that is what they really want to do, and
986 ssh will refuse to connect to hosts whose host key has changed.
988 known hosts will be verified automatically in all cases.
997 Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages to the
999 If they are sent, death of the connection or crash of one
1000 of the machines will be properly noticed.
1001 However, this means that
1002 connections will die if the route is down temporarily, and some people
1007 (to send TCP keepalive messages), and the client will notice
1008 if the network goes down or the remote host dies.
1009 This is important in scripts, and many users want it too.
1011 To disable TCP keepalive messages, the value should be set to
1016 device forwarding between the client and the server.
1017 The argument must be
1027 requests the default tunnel mode, which is
1028 .Dq point-to-point .
1034 devices to open on the client
1039 The argument must be
1041 .Ar local_tun Op : Ar remote_tun .
1043 The devices may be specified by numerical ID or the keyword
1045 which uses the next available tunnel device.
1048 is not specified, it defaults to
1052 .It Cm UsePrivilegedPort
1053 Specifies whether to use a privileged port for outgoing connections.
1054 The argument must be
1063 must be setuid root.
1064 Note that this option must be set to
1067 .Cm RhostsRSAAuthentication
1070 Specifies the user to log in as.
1071 This can be useful when a different user name is used on different machines.
1072 This saves the trouble of
1073 having to remember to give the user name on the command line.
1074 .It Cm UserKnownHostsFile
1075 Specifies a file to use for the user
1076 host key database instead of
1077 .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts .
1078 .It Cm VerifyHostKeyDNS
1079 Specifies whether to verify the remote key using DNS and SSHFP resource
1081 If this option is set to
1083 the client will implicitly trust keys that match a secure fingerprint
1085 Insecure fingerprints will be handled as if this option was set to
1087 If this option is set to
1089 information on fingerprint match will be displayed, but the user will still
1090 need to confirm new host keys according to the
1091 .Cm StrictHostKeyChecking
1093 The argument must be
1100 Note that this option applies to protocol version 2 only.
1103 .Sx VERIFYING HOST KEYS
1106 .It Cm VisualHostKey
1107 If this flag is set to
1109 an ASCII art representation of the remote host key fingerprint is
1110 printed in addition to the hex fingerprint string at login and
1111 for unknown host keys.
1112 If this flag is set to
1114 no fingerprint strings are printed at login and
1115 only the hex fingerprint string will be printed for unknown host keys.
1118 .It Cm XAuthLocation
1119 Specifies the full pathname of the
1123 .Pa /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth .
1128 consists of zero or more non-whitespace characters,
1130 (a wildcard that matches zero or more characters),
1133 (a wildcard that matches exactly one character).
1134 For example, to specify a set of declarations for any host in the
1137 the following pattern could be used:
1141 The following pattern
1142 would match any host in the 192.168.0.[0-9] network range:
1144 .Dl Host 192.168.0.?
1148 is a comma-separated list of patterns.
1149 Patterns within pattern-lists may be negated
1150 by preceding them with an exclamation mark
1153 to allow a key to be used from anywhere within an organisation
1157 the following entry (in authorized_keys) could be used:
1159 .Dl from=\&"!*.dialup.example.com,*.example.com\&"
1162 .It Pa ~/.ssh/config
1163 This is the per-user configuration file.
1164 The format of this file is described above.
1165 This file is used by the SSH client.
1166 Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions:
1167 read/write for the user, and not accessible by others.
1168 .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config
1169 Systemwide configuration file.
1170 This file provides defaults for those
1171 values that are not specified in the user's configuration file, and
1172 for those users who do not have a configuration file.
1173 This file must be world-readable.
1178 OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free
1179 ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.
1180 Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
1181 Theo de Raadt and Dug Song
1182 removed many bugs, re-added newer features and
1184 Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
1185 protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.