-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keyscan.1,v 1.9 2001/08/02 18:37:35 mpech Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keyscan.1,v 1.14 2002/02/13 08:33:47 mpech Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1995, 1996 by David Mazieres <dm@lcs.mit.edu>.
.\"
.Nd gather ssh public keys
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm ssh-keyscan
-.Op Fl t Ar timeout
-.Op Ar -- | host | addrlist namelist
-.Op Fl f Ar files ...
+.Op Fl v46
+.Op Fl p Ar port
+.Op Fl T Ar timeout
+.Op Fl t Ar type
+.Op Fl f Ar file
+.Op Ar host | addrlist namelist
+.Op Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a utility for gathering the public ssh host keys of a number of
uses non-blocking socket I/O to contact as many hosts as possible in
parallel, so it is very efficient. The keys from a domain of 1,000
hosts can be collected in tens of seconds, even when some of those
-hosts are down or do not run ssh. You do not need login access to the
-machines you are scanning, nor does the scanning process involve
-any encryption.
+hosts are down or do not run ssh. For scanning, one does not need
+login access to the machines that are being scanned, nor does the
+scanning process involve any encryption.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Fl t
+.It Fl p Ar port
+Port to connect to on the remote host.
+.It Fl T Ar timeout
Set the timeout for connection attempts. If
.Pa timeout
seconds have elapsed since a connection was initiated to a host or since the
last time anything was read from that host, then the connection is
closed and the host in question considered unavailable. Default is 5
seconds.
-.It Fl f
+.It Fl t Ar type
+Specifies the type of the key to fetch from the scanned hosts.
+The possible values are
+.Dq rsa1
+for protocol version 1 and
+.Dq rsa
+or
+.Dq dsa
+for protocol version 2.
+Multiple values may be specified by separating them with commas.
+The default is
+.Dq rsa1 .
+.It Fl f Ar filename
Read hosts or
.Pa addrlist namelist
pairs from this file, one per line.
will read hosts or
.Pa addrlist namelist
pairs from the standard input.
+.It Fl v
+Verbose mode.
+Causes
+.Nm
+to print debugging messages about its progress.
+.It Fl 4
+Forces
+.Nm
+to use IPv4 addresses only.
+.It Fl 6
+Forces
+.Nm
+to use IPv6 addresses only.
.El
.Sh SECURITY
-If you make an ssh_known_hosts file using
+If a ssh_known_hosts file is constructed using
.Nm
-without verifying the keys, you will be vulnerable to
+without verifying the keys, users will be vulnerable to
.I man in the middle
attacks.
-On the other hand, if your security model allows such a risk,
+On the other hand, if the security model allows such a risk,
.Nm
-can help you detect tampered keyfiles or man in the middle attacks which
-have begun after you created your ssh_known_hosts file.
+can help in the detection of tampered keyfiles or man in the middle
+attacks which have begun after the ssh_known_hosts file was created.
.Sh EXAMPLES
-Print the host key for machine
+.Pp
+Print the
+.Pa rsa1
+host key for machine
.Pa hostname :
.Bd -literal
-ssh-keyscan hostname
+$ ssh-keyscan hostname
.Ed
.Pp
Find all hosts from the file
which have new or different keys from those in the sorted file
.Pa ssh_known_hosts :
.Bd -literal
-$ ssh-keyscan -f ssh_hosts | sort -u - ssh_known_hosts | \e\
- diff ssh_known_hosts -
+$ ssh-keyscan -t rsa,dsa -f ssh_hosts | \e\
+ sort -u - ssh_known_hosts | diff ssh_known_hosts -
.Ed
.Sh FILES
.Pa Input format:
+.Bd -literal
1.2.3.4,1.2.4.4 name.my.domain,name,n.my.domain,n,1.2.3.4,1.2.4.4
+.Ed
.Pp
-.Pa Output format:
+.Pa Output format for rsa1 keys:
+.Bd -literal
host-or-namelist bits exponent modulus
+.Ed
+.Pp
+.Pa Output format for rsa and dsa keys:
+.Bd -literal
+host-or-namelist keytype base64-encoded-key
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Where
+.Pa keytype
+is either
+.Dq ssh-rsa
+or
+.Dq ssh-dsa .
.Pp
-.Pa /etc/ssh_known_hosts
+.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
.Sh BUGS
It generates "Connection closed by remote host" messages on the consoles
-of all the machines it scans.
+of all the machines it scans if the server is older than version 2.9.
This is because it opens a connection to the ssh port, reads the public
key, and drops the connection as soon as it gets the key.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sshd 8
.Sh AUTHORS
David Mazieres <dm@lcs.mit.edu>
+wrote the initial version, and
+Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
+added support for protocol version 2.
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