Import of OpenSSH 3.8p1

[gssapi-openssh.git] / openssh / sshd_config.5

diff --git a/openssh/sshd_config.5 b/openssh/sshd_config.5
index 727fdb12abe12ebbe9121ce76d71e0d287b4b1a8..41228248cb6949135d911856bcac515646518197 100644 (file)
--- a/openssh/sshd_config.5
+++ b/openssh/sshd_config.5
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: sshd_config.5,v 1.25 2003/09/01 09:50:04 markus Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sshd_config.5,v 1.28 2004/02/17 19:35:21 jmc Exp $
 .Dd September 25, 1999
 .Dt SSHD_CONFIG 5
 .Os
@@ -156,12 +156,12 @@ If this threshold is reached while client alive messages are being sent,
 will disconnect the client, terminating the session.
 It is important to note that the use of client alive messages is very
 different from
-.Cm KeepAlive
+.Cm TCPKeepAlive
 (below).
 The client alive messages are sent through the encrypted channel
 and therefore will not be spoofable.
 The TCP keepalive option enabled by
-.Cm KeepAlive
+.Cm TCPKeepAlive
 is spoofable.
 The client alive mechanism is valuable when the client or
 server depend on knowing when a connection has become inactive.
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ The default is
 .Dq no .
 .It Cm GSSAPIAuthentication
 Specifies whether user authentication based on GSSAPI is allowed.
-The default is 
+The default is
 .Dq no .
 Note that this option applies to protocol version 2 only.
 .It Cm GSSAPICleanupCredentials
@@ -292,27 +292,6 @@ or
 .Cm HostbasedAuthentication .
 The default is
 .Dq no .
-.It Cm KeepAlive
-Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages to the
-other side.
-If they are sent, death of the connection or crash of one
-of the machines will be properly noticed.
-However, this means that
-connections will die if the route is down temporarily, and some people
-find it annoying.
-On the other hand, if keepalives are not sent,
-sessions may hang indefinitely on the server, leaving
-.Dq ghost
-users and consuming server resources.
-.Pp
-The default is
-.Dq yes
-(to send keepalives), and the server will notice
-if the network goes down or the client host crashes.
-This avoids infinitely hanging sessions.
-.Pp
-To disable keepalives, the value should be set to
-.Dq no .
 .It Cm KerberosAuthentication
 Specifies whether the password provided by the user for
 .Cm PasswordAuthentication
@@ -533,13 +512,6 @@ Specifies whether public key authentication is allowed.
 The default is
 .Dq yes .
 Note that this option applies to protocol version 2 only.
-.Cm RhostsRSAAuthentication
-should be used
-instead, because it performs RSA-based host authentication in addition
-to normal rhosts or /etc/hosts.equiv authentication.
-The default is
-.Dq no .
-This option applies to protocol version 1 only.
 .It Cm RhostsRSAAuthentication
 Specifies whether rhosts or /etc/hosts.equiv authentication together
 with successful RSA host authentication is allowed.
@@ -580,6 +552,27 @@ Gives the facility code that is used when logging messages from
 The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH, LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2,
 LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7.
 The default is AUTH.
+.It Cm TCPKeepAlive
+Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages to the
+other side.
+If they are sent, death of the connection or crash of one
+of the machines will be properly noticed.
+However, this means that
+connections will die if the route is down temporarily, and some people
+find it annoying.
+On the other hand, if TCP keepalives are not sent,
+sessions may hang indefinitely on the server, leaving
+.Dq ghost
+users and consuming server resources.
+.Pp
+The default is
+.Dq yes
+(to send TCP keepalive messages), and the server will notice
+if the network goes down or the client host crashes.
+This avoids infinitely hanging sessions.
+.Pp
+To disable TCP keepalive messages, the value should be set to
+.Dq no .
 .It Cm UseDNS
 Specifies whether
 .Nm sshd
@@ -608,12 +601,13 @@ If
 .Cm UsePrivilegeSeparation
 is specified, it will be disabled after authentication.
 .It Cm UsePAM
-Enables PAM authentication (via challenge-response) and session set up. 
-If you enable this, you should probably disable 
+Enables PAM authentication (via challenge-response) and session set up.
+If you enable this, you should probably disable
 .Cm PasswordAuthentication .
-If you enable 
+If you enable
 .CM UsePAM
-then you will not be able to run sshd as a non-root user.
+then you will not be able to run sshd as a non-root user.  The default is
+.Dq no .
 .It Cm UsePrivilegeSeparation
 Specifies whether
 .Nm sshd