- tedu@cvs.openbsd.org 2010/01/17 21:49:09

[openssh.git] / sshd_config.5

diff --git a/sshd_config.5 b/sshd_config.5
index 9d679fed898814c1fdea9d28056c51f91164f33a..1e5390a6fb99262d75ccecab06b4882a1176b2ce 100644 (file)
--- a/sshd_config.5
+++ b/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 1.106 2009/04/21 15:13:17 stevesk Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sshd_config.5,v 1.116 2010/01/09 23:04:13 dtucker Exp $
 .Dd $Mdocdate$
 .Dt SSHD_CONFIG 5
 .Os
@@ -176,23 +176,22 @@ then no banner is displayed.
 This option is only available for protocol version 2.
 By default, no banner is displayed.
 .It Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication
-Specifies whether challenge-response authentication is allowed.
-All authentication styles from
-.Xr login.conf 5
-are supported.
+Specifies whether challenge-response authentication is allowed (e.g. via
+PAM or though authentication styles supported in
+.Xr login.conf 5 )
 The default is
 .Dq yes .
 .It Cm ChrootDirectory
-Specifies a path to
+Specifies the pathname of a directory to
 .Xr chroot 2
 to after authentication.
-This path, and all its components, must be root-owned directories that are
+All components of the pathname must be root-owned directories that are
 not writable by any other user or group.
 After the chroot,
 .Xr sshd 8
 changes the working directory to the user's home directory.
 .Pp
-The path may contain the following tokens that are expanded at runtime once
+The pathname may contain the following tokens that are expanded at runtime once
 the connecting user has been authenticated: %% is replaced by a literal '%',
 %h is replaced by the home directory of the user being authenticated, and
 %u is replaced by the username of that user.
@@ -615,6 +614,7 @@ Available keywords are
 .Cm PermitEmptyPasswords ,
 .Cm PermitOpen ,
 .Cm PermitRootLogin ,
+.Cm PubkeyAuthentication ,
 .Cm RhostsRSAAuthentication ,
 .Cm RSAAuthentication ,
 .Cm X11DisplayOffset ,
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ and
 .Sq 2 .
 Multiple versions must be comma-separated.
 The default is
-.Dq 2,1 .
+.Sq 2 .
 Note that the order of the protocol list does not indicate preference,
 because the client selects among multiple protocol versions offered
 by the server.
@@ -829,6 +829,9 @@ This is normally desirable because novices sometimes accidentally leave their
 directory or files world-writable.
 The default is
 .Dq yes .
+Note that this does not apply to
+.Cm ChrootDirectory ,
+whose permissions and ownership are checked unconditionally.
 .It Cm Subsystem
 Configures an external subsystem (e.g. file transfer daemon).
 Arguments should be a subsystem name and a command (with optional arguments)