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.Dd September 25, 1999
.Dt SSHD_CONFIG 5
.Os
keywords and their meanings are as follows (note that
keywords are case-insensitive and arguments are case-sensitive):
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Cm AFSTokenPassing
-Specifies whether an AFS token may be forwarded to the server.
-Default is
-.Dq no .
.It Cm AllowGroups
This keyword can be followed by a list of group name patterns, separated
by spaces.
for user authentication.
.Cm AuthorizedKeysFile
may contain tokens of the form %T which are substituted during connection
-set-up. The following tokens are defined: %% is replaced by a literal '%',
+set-up.
+The following tokens are defined: %% 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.
After expansion,
.Pp
.Bd -literal
``aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,
- aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc''
+ aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr''
.Ed
.It Cm ClientAliveInterval
Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has been received
Sets the number of client alive messages (see above) which may be
sent without
.Nm sshd
-receiving any messages back from the client. If this threshold is
-reached while client alive messages are being sent,
+receiving any messages back from the client.
+If this threshold is reached while client alive messages are being sent,
.Nm sshd
-will disconnect the client, terminating the session. It is important
-to note that the use of client alive messages is very different from
+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
-(below). The client alive messages are sent through the
-encrypted channel and therefore will not be spoofable. The TCP keepalive
-option enabled by
+(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
-is spoofable. The client alive mechanism is valuable when the client or
+is spoofable.
+The client alive mechanism is valuable when the client or
server depend on knowing when a connection has become inactive.
.Pp
-The default value is 3. If
+The default value is 3.
+If
.Cm ClientAliveInterval
(above) is set to 15, and
.Cm ClientAliveCountMax
.It Cm KerberosTgtPassing
Specifies whether a Kerberos TGT may be forwarded to the server.
Default is
-.Dq no ,
-as this only works when the Kerberos KDC is actually an AFS kaserver.
+.Dq no .
.It Cm KerberosTicketCleanup
Specifies whether to automatically destroy the user's ticket cache
file on logout.
.Nm sshd
will listen on the address and all prior
.Cm Port
-options specified. The default is to listen on all local
-addresses.
+options specified.
+The default is to listen on all local addresses.
Multiple
.Cm ListenAddress
-options are permitted. Additionally, any
+options are permitted.
+Additionally, any
.Cm Port
options must precede this option for non port qualified addresses.
.It Cm LoginGraceTime
.Ar command
option has been specified
(which may be useful for taking remote backups even if root login is
-normally not allowed). All other authentication methods are disabled
-for root.
+normally not allowed).
+All other authentication methods are disabled for root.
.Pp
If this option is set to
.Dq no
The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH, LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2,
LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7.
The default is AUTH.
+.It Cm UseDNS
+Specifies whether
+.Nm sshd
+should lookup 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 yes .
.It Cm UseLogin
Specifies whether
.Xr login 1
escalation by containing any corruption within the unprivileged processes.
The default is
.Dq yes .
-.It Cm VerifyReverseMapping
-Specifies whether
-.Nm sshd
-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 X11DisplayOffset
Specifies the first display number available for
.Nm sshd Ns 's
forwarding (see the warnings for
.Cm ForwardX11
in
-.Xr ssh_config 5 ).
+.Xr ssh_config 5 ) .
A system administrator may have a stance in which they want to
protect clients that may expose themselves to attack by unwittingly
requesting X11 forwarding, which can warrant a
.Pa /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth .
.El
.Ss Time Formats
-.Pp
.Nm sshd
command-line arguments and configuration file options that specify time
may be expressed using a sequence of the form:
This file should be writable by root only, but it is recommended
(though not necessary) that it be world-readable.
.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr sshd 8
.Sh AUTHORS
OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free
ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.
protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.
Niels Provos and Markus Friedl contributed support
for privilege separation.
-.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr sshd 8
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