.\" incompatible with the protocol description in the RFC file, it must be
.\" called by a name other than "ssh" or "Secure Shell".
.\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 1999,2000 Markus Friedl. All rights reserved.
-.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Aaron Campbell. All rights reserved.
-.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Theo de Raadt. All rights reserved.
+.\" Copyright (c) 1999,2000 Markus Friedl. All rights reserved.
+.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Aaron Campbell. All rights reserved.
+.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Theo de Raadt. All rights reserved.
.\"
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
.\" (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.8,v 1.83 2001/01/19 16:48:14 markus Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sshd.8,v 1.99 2001/03/02 18:54:31 deraadt Exp $
.Dd September 25, 1999
.Dt SSHD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sshd
-.Nd secure shell daemon
+.Nd OpenSSH secure shell daemon
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm sshd
-.Op Fl diqDQ46
+.Op Fl diqD46
.Op Fl b Ar bits
.Op Fl f Ar config_file
.Op Fl g Ar login_grace_time
.Pp
.Nm
rereads its configuration file when it receives a hangup signal,
-.Dv SIGHUP .
+.Dv SIGHUP ,
+by executing itself with the name it was started as, ie.
+.Pa /usr/sbin/sshd .
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
will not detach and does not become a daemon.
This allows easy monitoring of
.Nm sshd .
-.It Fl Q
-Do not print an error message if RSA support is missing.
.It Fl V Ar client_protocol_id
SSH-2 compatibility mode.
When this option is specified
Default is
.Dq yes .
.It Cm AllowGroups
-This keyword can be followed by a number of group names, separated
+This keyword can be followed by a list of group names, separated
by spaces.
If specified, login is allowed only for users whose primary
group or supplementary group list matches one of the patterns.
own forwarders.
.Pp
.It Cm AllowUsers
-This keyword can be followed by a number of user names, separated
+This keyword can be followed by a list of user names, separated
by spaces.
If specified, login is allowed only for users names that
match one of the patterns.
The default is INFO.
Logging with level DEBUG violates the privacy of users
and is not recommended.
+.It Cm MACs
+Specifies the available MAC (message authentication code) algorithms.
+The MAC algorithm is used in protocol version 2
+for data integrity protection.
+Multiple algorithms must be comma-separated.
+The default is
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal
+ ``hmac-sha1,hmac-md5,hmac-ripemd160,hmac-ripemd160@openssh.com,
+ hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96''
+.Ed
.It Cm MaxStartups
Specifies the maximum number of concurrent unauthenticated connections to the
.Nm
.Dq start:rate:full
(e.g., "10:30:60").
.Nm
-will refuse connection attempts with a probabillity of
+will refuse connection attempts with a probability of
.Dq rate/100
(30%)
if there are currently
.Dq start
(10)
unauthenticated connections.
-The probabillity increases linearly and all connection attempts
+The probability increases linearly and all connection attempts
are refused if the number of unauthenticated connections reaches
.Dq full
(60).
.Xr ssh 1 .
The argument must be
.Dq yes ,
-.Dq without-password
+.Dq without-password ,
+.Dq forced-commands-only
or
.Dq no .
The default is
.Dq yes .
-If this options is set to
+.Pp
+If this option is set to
.Dq without-password
-only password authentication is disabled for root.
+password authentication is disabled for root.
.Pp
-Root login with RSA authentication when the
+If this option is set to
+.Dq forced-commands-only
+root login with public key authentication will be allowed,
+but only if the
.Ar command
-option has been
-specified will be allowed regardless of the value of this setting
+option has been specified
(which may be useful for taking remote backups even if root login is
-normally not allowed).
+normally not allowed). All other authentication methods are disabled
+for root.
.It Cm PidFile
Specifies the file that contains the process identifier of the
.Nm
.It Cm RandomSeed
Obsolete.
Random number generation uses other techniques.
+.It Cm ReverseMappingCheck
+Specifies whether
+.Nm
+should try to verify the remote host name and check that
+the resolved host name for the remote IP address maps back to the
+very same IP address.
+The default is
+.Dq no .
.It Cm RhostsAuthentication
Specifies whether authentication using rhosts or /etc/hosts.equiv
files is sufficient.
.It Cm ServerKeyBits
Defines the number of bits in the server key.
The minimum value is 512, and the default is 768.
-.It Cm SkeyAuthentication
+.It Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication
Specifies whether
-.Xr skey 1
+challenge reponse
authentication is allowed.
+Currently there is support for
+.Xr skey 1
+and PAM authentication.
The default is
.Dq yes .
-Note that s/key authentication is enabled only if
-.Cm PasswordAuthentication
-is allowed, too.
+Note that enabling ChallengeResponseAuthentication for PAM bypasses
+OpenSSH's password checking code, thus rendering options such as
+.Cm PasswordAuthentication
+and
+.Cm PermitEmptyPasswords
+ineffective.
.It Cm StrictModes
Specifies whether
.Nm
The command supplied by the user (if any) is ignored.
The command is run on a pty if the connection requests a pty;
otherwise it is run without a tty.
+Note that if you want a 8-bit clean channel,
+you must not request a pty or should specify
+.Cm no-pty .
A quote may be included in the command by quoting it with a backslash.
This option might be useful
to restrict certain RSA keys to perform just a specific operation.
.Nm sshd .
This file should be writable by root only, but it is recommended
(though not necessary) that it be world-readable.
-.It Pa /etc/ssh_host_key
-Contains the private part of the host key.
-This file should only be owned by root, readable only by root, and not
+.It Pa /etc/ssh_host_key, /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key, /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
+These three files contain the private parts of the
+(SSH1, SSH2 DSA, and SSH2 RSA) host keys.
+These files should only be owned by root, readable only by root, and not
accessible to others.
Note that
.Nm
does not start if this file is group/world-accessible.
-.It Pa /etc/ssh_host_key.pub
-Contains the public part of the host key.
-This file should be world-readable but writable only by
+.It Pa /etc/ssh_host_key.pub, /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub, /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
+There three files contain the public parts of the
+(SSH1, SSH2 DSA, and SSH2 RSA) host keys.
+These files should be world-readable but writable only by
root.
-Its contents should match the private part.
-This file is not
-really used for anything; it is only provided for the convenience of
-the user so its contents can be copied to known hosts files.
-These two files are created using
+Their contents should match the respective private parts.
+These files are not
+really used for anything; they are provided for the convenience of
+the user so their contents can be copied to known hosts files.
+These files are created using
.Xr ssh-keygen 1 .
.It Pa /etc/primes
Contains Diffie-Hellman groups used for the "Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange".
authentication to check the public key of the host.
The key must be listed in one of these files to be accepted.
The client uses the same files
-to verify that the remote host is the one it intended to connect.
+to verify that it is connecting to the correct remote host.
These files should be writable only by root/the owner.
.Pa /etc/ssh_known_hosts
should be world-readable, and
This file should be writable only by root, and should be world-readable.
.El
.Sh AUTHORS
-OpenSSH
-is a derivative of the original (free) ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen,
-but with bugs removed and newer features re-added.
-Rapidly after the
-1.2.12 release, newer versions of the original ssh bore successively
-more restrictive licenses, and thus demand for a free version was born.
-.Pp
-This version of OpenSSH
-.Bl -bullet
-.It
-has all components of a restrictive nature (i.e., patents, see
-.Xr ssl 8 )
-directly removed from the source code; any licensed or patented components
-are chosen from
-external libraries.
-.It
-has been updated to support SSH protocol 1.5 and 2, making it compatible with
-all other SSH clients and servers.
-.It
-contains added support for
-.Xr kerberos 8
-authentication and ticket passing.
-.It
-supports one-time password authentication with
-.Xr skey 1 .
-.El
-.Pp
-OpenSSH has been created by Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl,
-Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt, and Dug Song.
-.Pp
-The support for SSH protocol 2 was written by Markus Friedl.
+OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free
+ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.
+Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
+Theo de Raadt and Dug Song
+removed many bugs, re-added newer features and
+created OpenSSH.
+Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
+protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr scp 1 ,
+.Xr sftp 1 ,
.Xr sftp-server 8 ,
.Xr ssh 1 ,
.Xr ssh-add 1 ,
.Xr ssh-agent 1 ,
.Xr ssh-keygen 1 ,
-.Xr ssl 8 ,
.Xr rlogin 1 ,
.Xr rsh 1
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