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-.\" $OpenBSD: sshd.8,v 1.234 2006/08/21 08:15:57 dtucker Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sshd.8,v 1.235 2007/03/20 15:57:15 jmc Exp $
.Dd September 25, 1999
.Dt SSHD 8
.Os
.Nm
(OpenSSH Daemon) is the daemon program for
.Xr ssh 1 .
-Together these programs replace rlogin and rsh, and
-provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts
+Together these programs replace
+.Xr rlogin 1
+and
+.Xr rsh 1 ,
+and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts
over an insecure network.
.Pp
.Nm
When this option is specified,
.Nm
will send the output to the standard error instead of the system log.
-.It Fl f Ar configuration_file
+.It Fl f Ar config_file
Specifies the name of the configuration file.
The default is
.Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config .
but allows host-based authentication without permitting login with
rlogin/rsh.
.Pp
-.It /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
-Systemwide list of known host keys.
-This file should be prepared by the
-system administrator to contain the public host keys of all machines in the
-organization.
-The format of this file is described above.
-This file should be writable only by root/the owner and
-should be world-readable.
-.Pp
.It /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
.It /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
.It /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
These files are created using
.Xr ssh-keygen 1 .
.Pp
+.It /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
+Systemwide list of known host keys.
+This file should be prepared by the
+system administrator to contain the public host keys of all machines in the
+organization.
+The format of this file is described above.
+This file should be writable only by root/the owner and
+should be world-readable.
+.Pp
.It /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Contains configuration data for
.Nm sshd .
.Xr ssh-add 1 ,
.Xr ssh-agent 1 ,
.Xr ssh-keygen 1 ,
+.Xr ssh-keyscan 1 ,
.Xr chroot 2 ,
.Xr hosts_access 5 ,
.Xr login.conf 5 ,