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+.\" $OpenBSD: sshd.8,v 1.174 2002/03/26 11:34:49 markus Exp $
.Dd September 25, 1999
.Dt SSHD 8
.Os
.Nd OpenSSH SSH daemon
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm sshd
-.Op Fl deiqD46
+.Op Fl deiqtD46
.Op Fl b Ar bits
.Op Fl f Ar config_file
.Op Fl g Ar login_grace_time
.Op Fl h Ar host_key_file
.Op Fl k Ar key_gen_time
+.Op Fl o Ar option
.Op Fl p Ar port
.Op Fl u Ar len
-.Op Fl V Ar client_protocol_id
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
(SSH Daemon) is the daemon program for
System security is not improved unless
.Xr rshd 8 ,
.Xr rlogind 8 ,
-.Xr rexecd 8 ,
and
-.Xr rexd 8
+.Xr rexecd 8
are disabled (thus completely disabling
.Xr rlogin 1
and
.It Fl f Ar configuration_file
Specifies the name of the configuration file.
The default is
-.Pa /etc/sshd_config .
+.Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config .
.Nm
refuses to start if there is no configuration file.
.It Fl g Ar login_grace_time
this many seconds, the server disconnects and exits.
A value of zero indicates no limit.
.It Fl h Ar host_key_file
-Specifies the file from which the host key is read (default
-.Pa /etc/ssh_host_key ) .
+Specifies a file from which a host key is read.
This option must be given if
.Nm
is not run as root (as the normal
-host file is normally not readable by anyone but root).
+host key files are normally not readable by anyone but root).
+The default is
+.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
+for protocol version 1, and
+.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
+and
+.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
+for protocol version 2.
It is possible to have multiple host key files for
the different protocol versions and host key algorithms.
.It Fl i
communications even if the machine is cracked into or physically
seized.
A value of zero indicates that the key will never be regenerated.
+.It Fl o Ar option
+Can be used to give options in the format used in the configuration file.
+This is useful for specifying options for which there is no separate
+command-line flag.
.It Fl p Ar port
Specifies the port on which the server listens for connections
(default 22).
+Multiple port options are permitted.
+Ports specified in the configuration file are ignored when a
+command-line port is specified.
.It Fl q
Quiet mode.
Nothing is sent to the system log.
.It Fl t
Test mode.
Only check the validity of the configuration file and sanity of the keys.
-This is useful for updating
+This is useful for updating
.Nm
reliably as configuration options may change.
.It Fl u Ar len
should be put into the
.Pa utmp
file.
+.Fl u0
+is also be used to prevent
+.Nm
+from making DNS requests unless the authentication
+mechanism or configuration requires it.
+Authentication mechanisms that may require DNS include
+.Cm RhostsAuthentication ,
+.Cm RhostsRSAAuthentication ,
+.Cm HostbasedAuthentication
+and using a
+.Cm from="pattern-list"
+option in a key file.
+Configuration options that require DNS include using a
+USER@HOST pattern in
+.Cm AllowUsers
+or
+.Cm DenyUsers .
.It Fl D
When this option is specified
.Nm
.Sh CONFIGURATION FILE
.Nm
reads configuration data from
-.Pa /etc/sshd_config
+.Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config
(or the file specified with
.Fl f
on the command line).
Default is
.Dq yes .
.It Cm AllowGroups
-This keyword can be followed by a list of group names, separated
+This keyword can be followed by a list of group name patterns, separated
by spaces.
If specified, login is allowed only for users whose primary
group or supplementary group list matches one of the patterns.
.Ql ?
can be used as
wildcards in the patterns.
-Only group names are valid; a numerical group ID isn't recognized.
-By default login is allowed regardless of the group list.
+Only group names are valid; a numerical group ID is not recognized.
+By default, login is allowed for all groups.
.Pp
.It Cm AllowTcpForwarding
Specifies whether TCP forwarding is permitted.
own forwarders.
.Pp
.It Cm AllowUsers
-This keyword can be followed by a list of user names, separated
+This keyword can be followed by a list of user name patterns, separated
by spaces.
If specified, login is allowed only for users names that
match one of the patterns.
.Ql ?
can be used as
wildcards in the patterns.
-Only user names are valid; a numerical user ID isn't recognized.
-By default login is allowed regardless of the user name.
+Only user names are valid; a numerical user ID is not recognized.
+By default, login is allowed for all users.
If the pattern takes the form USER@HOST then USER and HOST
-are separately checked, allowing you to restrict logins to particular
+are separately checked, restricting logins to particular
users from particular hosts.
.Pp
.It Cm AuthorizedKeysFile
is taken to be an absolute path or one relative to the user's home
directory.
The default is
-.Dq .ssh/authorized_keys
+.Dq .ssh/authorized_keys .
.It Cm Banner
In some jurisdictions, sending a warning message before authentication
may be relevant for getting legal protection.
The contents of the specified file are sent to the remote user before
authentication is allowed.
This option is only available for protocol version 2.
+By default, no banner is displayed.
.Pp
.It Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication
Specifies whether challenge response authentication is allowed.
Specifies the ciphers allowed for protocol version 2.
Multiple ciphers must be comma-separated.
The default is
-.Dq aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour.
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal
+ ``aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,
+ aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc''
+.Ed
.It Cm ClientAliveInterval
Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has been received
from the client,
.Nm
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 KeepAlive
(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. You want to use the client
-alive mechanism when you are basing something important on
-clients having an active connection to the server.
+.Cm KeepAlive
+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 you set
+The default value is 3. If
.Cm ClientAliveInterval
-(above) to 15, and leave this value at the default, unresponsive ssh clients
+(above) is set to 15, and
+.Cm ClientAliveCountMax
+is left at the default, unresponsive ssh clients
will be disconnected after approximately 45 seconds.
.It Cm DenyGroups
-This keyword can be followed by a number of group names, separated
+This keyword can be followed by a list of group name patterns, separated
by spaces.
-Users whose primary group or supplementary group list matches
-one of the patterns aren't allowed to log in.
+Login is disallowed for users whose primary group or supplementary
+group list matches one of the patterns.
.Ql \&*
and
.Ql ?
can be used as
wildcards in the patterns.
-Only group names are valid; a numerical group ID isn't recognized.
-By default login is allowed regardless of the group list.
+Only group names are valid; a numerical group ID is not recognized.
+By default, login is allowed for all groups.
.Pp
.It Cm DenyUsers
-This keyword can be followed by a number of user names, separated
+This keyword can be followed by a list of user name patterns, separated
by spaces.
Login is disallowed for user names that match one of the patterns.
.Ql \&*
and
.Ql ?
can be used as wildcards in the patterns.
-Only user names are valid; a numerical user ID isn't recognized.
-By default login is allowed regardless of the user name.
+Only user names are valid; a numerical user ID is not recognized.
+By default, login is allowed for all users.
+If the pattern takes the form USER@HOST then USER and HOST
+are separately checked, restricting logins to particular
+users from particular hosts.
.It Cm GatewayPorts
Specifies whether remote hosts are allowed to connect to ports
forwarded for the client.
+By default,
+.Nm
+binds remote port forwardings to the loopback addresss. This
+prevents other remote hosts from connecting to forwarded ports.
+.Cm GatewayPorts
+can be used to specify that
+.Nm
+should bind remote port forwardings to the wildcard address,
+thus allowing remote hosts to connect to forwarded ports.
The argument must be
.Dq yes
or
The default is
.Dq no .
.It Cm HostKey
-Specifies the file containing the private host keys (default
-.Pa /etc/ssh_host_key )
-used by SSH protocol versions 1 and 2.
+Specifies a file containing a private host key
+used by SSH.
+The default is
+.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
+for protocol version 1, and
+.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
+and
+.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
+for protocol version 2.
Note that
.Nm
will refuse to use a file if it is group/world-accessible.
The default is
.Dq no .
.It Cm KeepAlive
-Specifies whether the system should send keepalive messages to the
+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.
The default is
.Dq yes
(to send keepalives), and the server will notice
-if the network goes down or the client host reboots.
+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
-in both the server and the client configuration files.
+.Dq no .
.It Cm KerberosAuthentication
Specifies whether Kerberos authentication is allowed.
This can be in the form of a Kerberos ticket, or if
Gives the verbosity level that is used when logging messages from
.Nm sshd .
The possible values are:
-QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE and DEBUG.
-The default is INFO.
-Logging with level DEBUG violates the privacy of users
+QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1, DEBUG2 and DEBUG3.
+The default is INFO. DEBUG and DEBUG1 are equivalent. DEBUG2
+and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of debugging output.
+Logging with a DEBUG level violates the privacy of users
and is not recommended.
.It Cm MACs
Specifies the available MAC (message authentication code) algorithms.
The default is
.Dq yes .
Note that this option applies to protocol version 2 only.
-.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.
.Xr login 1
does not know how to handle
.Xr xauth 1
-cookies.
+cookies. If
+.Cm UsePrivilegeSeparation
+is specified, it will be disabled after authentication.
+.It Cm UsePrivilegeSeparation
+Specifies whether
+.Nm
+separated privileges by creating an unprivileged child process
+to deal with incoming network traffic. After successful authentication,
+another process will be created that has the privilege of the authenticated
+user. The goal of privilege separation is to prevent privilege
+escalation by containing any corruption within the unprivileged processes.
+The default is
+.Dq no .
+.It Cm VerifyReverseMapping
+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 X11DisplayOffset
Specifies the first display number available for
.Nm sshd Ns 's
X11 forwarding is automatically disabled if
.Cm UseLogin
is enabled.
+.It Cm X11UseLocalhost
+Specifies whether
+.Nm
+should bind the X11 forwarding server to the loopback address or to
+the wildcard address. By default,
+.Nm
+binds the forwarding server to the loopback address and sets the
+hostname part of the
+.Ev DISPLAY
+environment variable to
+.Dq localhost .
+This prevents remote hosts from connecting to the fake display.
+However, some older X11 clients may not function with this
+configuration.
+.Cm X11UseLocalhost
+may be set to
+.Dq no
+to specify that the forwarding server should be bound to the wildcard
+address.
+The argument must be
+.Dq yes
+or
+.Dq no .
+The default is
+.Dq yes .
.It Cm XAuthLocation
Specifies the location of the
.Xr xauth 1
If
.Pa $HOME/.ssh/rc
exists, runs it; else if
-.Pa /etc/sshrc
+.Pa /etc/ssh/sshrc
exists, runs
it; otherwise runs xauth.
The
Specifies that the command is executed whenever this key is used for
authentication.
The command supplied by the user (if any) is ignored.
-The command is run on a pty if the connection requests a pty;
+The command is run on a pty if the client 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
+If a 8-bit clean channel is required,
+one 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
An example might be a key that permits remote backups but nothing else.
Note that the client may specify TCP/IP and/or X11
forwarding unless they are explicitly prohibited.
+Note that this option applies to shell, command or subsystem execution.
.It Cm environment="NAME=value"
Specifies that the string is to be added to the environment when
logging in using this key.
Environment variables set this way
override other default environment values.
Multiple options of this type are permitted.
+This option is automatically disabled if
+.Cm UseLogin
+is enabled.
.It Cm no-port-forwarding
Forbids TCP/IP forwarding when this key is used for authentication.
Any port forward requests by the client will return an error.
Limit local
.Li ``ssh -L''
port forwarding such that it may only connect to the specified host and
-port. Multiple
+port.
+IPv6 addresses can be specified with an alternative syntax:
+.Ar host/port .
+Multiple
.Cm permitopen
options may be applied separated by commas. No pattern matching is
performed on the specified hostnames, they must be literal domains or
permitopen="10.2.1.55:80",permitopen="10.2.1.56:25" 1024 33 23.\|.\|.\|2323
.Sh SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS FILE FORMAT
The
-.Pa /etc/ssh_known_hosts ,
+.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts ,
and
.Pa $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts
files contain host public keys for all known hosts.
.Pp
Bits, exponent, and modulus are taken directly from the RSA host key; they
can be obtained, e.g., from
-.Pa /etc/ssh_host_key.pub .
+.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub .
The optional comment field continues to the end of the line, and is not used.
.Pp
Lines starting with
long, and you definitely don't want to type in the host keys by hand.
Rather, generate them by a script
or by taking
-.Pa /etc/ssh_host_key.pub
+.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
and adding the host names at the front.
.Ss Examples
.Bd -literal
.Ed
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Pa /etc/sshd_config
+.It Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Contains configuration data for
.Nm sshd .
This file should be writable by root only, but it is recommended
(though not necessary) that it be world-readable.
-.It Pa /etc/ssh_host_key, /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key, /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
+.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key, /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key, /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
These three files contain the private parts of the host keys.
These files should only be owned by root, readable only by root, and not
accessible to others.
Note that
.Nm
does not start if this file is group/world-accessible.
-.It Pa /etc/ssh_host_key.pub, /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub, /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
+.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub, /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub, /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
These three files contain the public parts of the host keys.
These files should be world-readable but writable only by
root.
.Pa id_rsa.pub
files into this file, as described in
.Xr ssh-keygen 1 .
-.It Pa "/etc/ssh_known_hosts" and "$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts"
+.It Pa "/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts" and "$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts"
These files are consulted when using rhosts with RSA host
authentication or protocol version 2 hostbased authentication
to check the public key of the host.
The client uses the same files
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
+.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
should be world-readable, and
.Pa $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts
can but need not be world-readable.
refused.
The file should be world-readable.
.It Pa /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny
-If compiled with
-.Sy LIBWRAP
-support, tcp-wrappers access controls may be defined here as described in
+Access controls that should be enforced by tcp-wrappers are defined here.
+Further details are described in
.Xr hosts_access 5 .
.It Pa $HOME/.rhosts
This file contains host-username pairs, separated by a space, one per
.Ed
.Pp
If this file does not exist,
-.Pa /etc/sshrc
+.Pa /etc/ssh/sshrc
is run, and if that
does not exist either, xauth is used to store the cookie.
.Pp
This file should be writable only by the user, and need not be
readable by anyone else.
-.It Pa /etc/sshrc
+.It Pa /etc/ssh/sshrc
Like
.Pa $HOME/.ssh/rc .
This can be used to specify
created OpenSSH.
Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.
+Niels Provos and Markus Friedl contributed support
+for privilege separation.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr scp 1 ,
.Xr sftp 1 ,
.%A T. Rinne
.%A S. Lehtinen
.%T "SSH Protocol Architecture"
-.%N draft-ietf-secsh-architecture-09.txt
-.%D July 2001
+.%N draft-ietf-secsh-architecture-12.txt
+.%D January 2002
.%O work in progress material
.Re
.Rs
.%A N. Provos
.%A W. A. Simpson
.%T "Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange for the SSH Transport Layer Protocol"
-.%N draft-ietf-secsh-dh-group-exchange-01.txt
-.%D April 2001
+.%N draft-ietf-secsh-dh-group-exchange-02.txt
+.%D January 2002
.%O work in progress material
.Re