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36.\" $OpenBSD: sshd.8,v 1.312 2020/01/25 06:03:10 djm Exp $
37.Dd $Mdocdate: January 25 2020 $
38.Dt SSHD 8
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm sshd
42.Nd OpenSSH daemon
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Nm sshd
45.Bk -words
46.Op Fl 46DdeiqTt
47.Op Fl C Ar connection_spec
48.Op Fl c Ar host_certificate_file
49.Op Fl E Ar log_file
50.Op Fl f Ar config_file
51.Op Fl g Ar login_grace_time
52.Op Fl h Ar host_key_file
53.Op Fl o Ar option
54.Op Fl p Ar port
55.Op Fl u Ar len
56.Ek
57.Sh DESCRIPTION
58.Nm
59(OpenSSH Daemon) is the daemon program for
60.Xr ssh 1 .
61Together these programs replace rlogin and rsh,
62and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts
63over an insecure network.
64.Pp
65.Nm
66listens for connections from clients.
67It is normally started at boot from
68.Pa /etc/rc .
69It forks a new
70daemon for each incoming connection.
71The forked daemons handle
72key exchange, encryption, authentication, command execution,
73and data exchange.
74.Pp
75.Nm
76can be configured using command-line options or a configuration file
77(by default
78.Xr sshd_config 5 ) ;
79command-line options override values specified in the
80configuration file.
81.Nm
82rereads its configuration file when it receives a hangup signal,
83.Dv SIGHUP ,
84by executing itself with the name and options it was started with, e.g.\&
85.Pa /usr/sbin/sshd .
86.Pp
87The options are as follows:
88.Bl -tag -width Ds
89.It Fl 4
90Forces
91.Nm
92to use IPv4 addresses only.
93.It Fl 6
94Forces
95.Nm
96to use IPv6 addresses only.
97.It Fl C Ar connection_spec
98Specify the connection parameters to use for the
99.Fl T
100extended test mode.
101If provided, any
102.Cm Match
103directives in the configuration file that would apply are applied before the
104configuration is written to standard output.
105The connection parameters are supplied as keyword=value pairs and may be
106supplied in any order, either with multiple
107.Fl C
108options or as a comma-separated list.
109The keywords are
110.Dq addr,
111.Dq user ,
112.Dq host ,
113.Dq laddr ,
114.Dq lport ,
115and
116.Dq rdomain
117and correspond to source address, user, resolved source host name,
118local address, local port number and routing domain respectively.
119.It Fl c Ar host_certificate_file
120Specifies a path to a certificate file to identify
121.Nm
122during key exchange.
123The certificate file must match a host key file specified using the
124.Fl h
125option or the
126.Cm HostKey
127configuration directive.
128.It Fl D
129When this option is specified,
130.Nm
131will not detach and does not become a daemon.
132This allows easy monitoring of
133.Nm sshd .
134.It Fl d
135Debug mode.
136The server sends verbose debug output to standard error,
137and does not put itself in the background.
138The server also will not fork and will only process one connection.
139This option is only intended for debugging for the server.
140Multiple
141.Fl d
142options increase the debugging level.
143Maximum is 3.
144.It Fl E Ar log_file
145Append debug logs to
146.Ar log_file
147instead of the system log.
148.It Fl e
149Write debug logs to standard error instead of the system log.
150.It Fl f Ar config_file
151Specifies the name of the configuration file.
152The default is
153.Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config .
154.Nm
155refuses to start if there is no configuration file.
156.It Fl g Ar login_grace_time
157Gives the grace time for clients to authenticate themselves (default
158120 seconds).
159If the client fails to authenticate the user within
160this many seconds, the server disconnects and exits.
161A value of zero indicates no limit.
162.It Fl h Ar host_key_file
163Specifies a file from which a host key is read.
164This option must be given if
165.Nm
166is not run as root (as the normal
167host key files are normally not readable by anyone but root).
168The default is
169.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key ,
170.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
171and
172.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key .
173It is possible to have multiple host key files for
174the different host key algorithms.
175.It Fl i
176Specifies that
177.Nm
178is being run from
179.Xr inetd 8 .
180.It Fl o Ar option
181Can be used to give options in the format used in the configuration file.
182This is useful for specifying options for which there is no separate
183command-line flag.
184For full details of the options, and their values, see
185.Xr sshd_config 5 .
186.It Fl p Ar port
187Specifies the port on which the server listens for connections
188(default 22).
189Multiple port options are permitted.
190Ports specified in the configuration file with the
191.Cm Port
192option are ignored when a command-line port is specified.
193Ports specified using the
194.Cm ListenAddress
195option override command-line ports.
196.It Fl q
197Quiet mode.
198Nothing is sent to the system log.
199Normally the beginning,
200authentication, and termination of each connection is logged.
201.It Fl T
202Extended test mode.
203Check the validity of the configuration file, output the effective configuration
204to stdout and then exit.
205Optionally,
206.Cm Match
207rules may be applied by specifying the connection parameters using one or more
208.Fl C
209options.
210.It Fl t
211Test mode.
212Only check the validity of the configuration file and sanity of the keys.
213This is useful for updating
214.Nm
215reliably as configuration options may change.
216.It Fl u Ar len
217This option is used to specify the size of the field
218in the
219.Li utmp
220structure that holds the remote host name.
221If the resolved host name is longer than
222.Ar len ,
223the dotted decimal value will be used instead.
224This allows hosts with very long host names that
225overflow this field to still be uniquely identified.
226Specifying
227.Fl u0
228indicates that only dotted decimal addresses
229should be put into the
230.Pa utmp
231file.
232.Fl u0
233may also be used to prevent
234.Nm
235from making DNS requests unless the authentication
236mechanism or configuration requires it.
237Authentication mechanisms that may require DNS include
238.Cm HostbasedAuthentication
239and using a
240.Cm from="pattern-list"
241option in a key file.
242Configuration options that require DNS include using a
243USER@HOST pattern in
244.Cm AllowUsers
245or
246.Cm DenyUsers .
247.El
248.Sh AUTHENTICATION
249The OpenSSH SSH daemon supports SSH protocol 2 only.
250Each host has a host-specific key,
251used to identify the host.
252Whenever a client connects, the daemon responds with its public
253host key.
254The client compares the
255host key against its own database to verify that it has not changed.
256Forward secrecy is provided through a Diffie-Hellman key agreement.
257This key agreement results in a shared session key.
258The rest of the session is encrypted using a symmetric cipher.
259The client selects the encryption algorithm
260to use from those offered by the server.
261Additionally, session integrity is provided
262through a cryptographic message authentication code (MAC).
263.Pp
264Finally, the server and the client enter an authentication dialog.
265The client tries to authenticate itself using
266host-based authentication,
267public key authentication,
268challenge-response authentication,
269or password authentication.
270.Pp
271If the client successfully authenticates itself, a dialog for
272preparing the session is entered.
273At this time the client may request
274things like allocating a pseudo-tty, forwarding X11 connections,
275forwarding TCP connections, or forwarding the authentication agent
276connection over the secure channel.
277.Pp
278After this, the client either requests a shell or execution of a command.
279The sides then enter session mode.
280In this mode, either side may send
281data at any time, and such data is forwarded to/from the shell or
282command on the server side, and the user terminal in the client side.
283.Pp
284When the user program terminates and all forwarded X11 and other
285connections have been closed, the server sends command exit status to
286the client, and both sides exit.
287.Sh LOGIN PROCESS
288When a user successfully logs in,
289.Nm
290does the following:
291.Bl -enum -offset indent
292.It
293If the login is on a tty, and no command has been specified,
294prints last login time and
295.Pa /etc/motd
296(unless prevented in the configuration file or by
297.Pa ~/.hushlogin ;
298see the
299.Sx FILES
300section).
301.It
302If the login is on a tty, records login time.
303.It
304Checks
305.Pa /etc/nologin ;
306if it exists, prints contents and quits
307(unless root).
308.It
309Changes to run with normal user privileges.
310.It
311Sets up basic environment.
312.It
313Reads the file
314.Pa ~/.ssh/environment ,
315if it exists, and users are allowed to change their environment.
316See the
317.Cm PermitUserEnvironment
318option in
319.Xr sshd_config 5 .
320.It
321Changes to user's home directory.
322.It
323If
324.Pa ~/.ssh/rc
325exists and the
326.Xr sshd_config 5
327.Cm PermitUserRC
328option is set, runs it; else if
329.Pa /etc/ssh/sshrc
330exists, runs
331it; otherwise runs xauth.
332The
333.Dq rc
334files are given the X11
335authentication protocol and cookie in standard input.
336See
337.Sx SSHRC ,
338below.
339.It
340Runs user's shell or command.
341All commands are run under the user's login shell as specified in the
342system password database.
343.El
344.Sh SSHRC
345If the file
346.Pa ~/.ssh/rc
347exists,
348.Xr sh 1
349runs it after reading the
350environment files but before starting the user's shell or command.
351It must not produce any output on stdout; stderr must be used
352instead.
353If X11 forwarding is in use, it will receive the "proto cookie" pair in
354its standard input (and
355.Ev DISPLAY
356in its environment).
357The script must call
358.Xr xauth 1
359because
360.Nm
361will not run xauth automatically to add X11 cookies.
362.Pp
363The primary purpose of this file is to run any initialization routines
364which may be needed before the user's home directory becomes
365accessible; AFS is a particular example of such an environment.
366.Pp
367This file will probably contain some initialization code followed by
368something similar to:
369.Bd -literal -offset 3n
370if read proto cookie && [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
371	if [ `echo $DISPLAY | cut -c1-10` = 'localhost:' ]; then
372		# X11UseLocalhost=yes
373		echo add unix:`echo $DISPLAY |
374		    cut -c11-` $proto $cookie
375	else
376		# X11UseLocalhost=no
377		echo add $DISPLAY $proto $cookie
378	fi | xauth -q -
379fi
380.Ed
381.Pp
382If this file does not exist,
383.Pa /etc/ssh/sshrc
384is run, and if that
385does not exist either, xauth is used to add the cookie.
386.Sh AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT
387.Cm AuthorizedKeysFile
388specifies the files containing public keys for
389public key authentication;
390if this option is not specified, the default is
391.Pa ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
392and
393.Pa ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 .
394Each line of the file contains one
395key (empty lines and lines starting with a
396.Ql #
397are ignored as
398comments).
399Public keys consist of the following space-separated fields:
400options, keytype, base64-encoded key, comment.
401The options field is optional.
402The supported key types are:
403.Pp
404.Bl -item -compact -offset indent
405.It
406sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com
407.It
408ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
409.It
410ecdsa-sha2-nistp384
411.It
412ecdsa-sha2-nistp521
413.It
414sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com
415.It
416ssh-ed25519
417.It
418ssh-dss
419.It
420ssh-rsa
421.El
422.Pp
423The comment field is not used for anything (but may be convenient for the
424user to identify the key).
425.Pp
426Note that lines in this file can be several hundred bytes long
427(because of the size of the public key encoding) up to a limit of
4288 kilobytes, which permits RSA keys up to 16 kilobits.
429You don't want to type them in; instead, copy the
430.Pa id_dsa.pub ,
431.Pa id_ecdsa.pub ,
432.Pa id_ecdsa_sk.pub ,
433.Pa id_ed25519.pub ,
434.Pa id_ed25519_sk.pub ,
435or the
436.Pa id_rsa.pub
437file and edit it.
438.Pp
439.Nm
440enforces a minimum RSA key modulus size of 1024 bits.
441.Pp
442The options (if present) consist of comma-separated option
443specifications.
444No spaces are permitted, except within double quotes.
445The following option specifications are supported (note
446that option keywords are case-insensitive):
447.Bl -tag -width Ds
448.It Cm agent-forwarding
449Enable authentication agent forwarding previously disabled by the
450.Cm restrict
451option.
452.It Cm cert-authority
453Specifies that the listed key is a certification authority (CA) that is
454trusted to validate signed certificates for user authentication.
455.Pp
456Certificates may encode access restrictions similar to these key options.
457If both certificate restrictions and key options are present, the most
458restrictive union of the two is applied.
459.It Cm command="command"
460Specifies that the command is executed whenever this key is used for
461authentication.
462The command supplied by the user (if any) is ignored.
463The command is run on a pty if the client requests a pty;
464otherwise it is run without a tty.
465If an 8-bit clean channel is required,
466one must not request a pty or should specify
467.Cm no-pty .
468A quote may be included in the command by quoting it with a backslash.
469.Pp
470This option might be useful
471to restrict certain public keys to perform just a specific operation.
472An example might be a key that permits remote backups but nothing else.
473Note that the client may specify TCP and/or X11
474forwarding unless they are explicitly prohibited, e.g. using the
475.Cm restrict
476key option.
477.Pp
478The command originally supplied by the client is available in the
479.Ev SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
480environment variable.
481Note that this option applies to shell, command or subsystem execution.
482Also note that this command may be superseded by a
483.Xr sshd_config 5
484.Cm ForceCommand
485directive.
486.Pp
487If a command is specified and a forced-command is embedded in a certificate
488used for authentication, then the certificate will be accepted only if the
489two commands are identical.
490.It Cm environment="NAME=value"
491Specifies that the string is to be added to the environment when
492logging in using this key.
493Environment variables set this way
494override other default environment values.
495Multiple options of this type are permitted.
496Environment processing is disabled by default and is
497controlled via the
498.Cm PermitUserEnvironment
499option.
500.It Cm expiry-time="timespec"
501Specifies a time after which the key will not be accepted.
502The time may be specified as a YYYYMMDD date or a YYYYMMDDHHMM[SS] time
503in the system time-zone.
504.It Cm from="pattern-list"
505Specifies that in addition to public key authentication, either the canonical
506name of the remote host or its IP address must be present in the
507comma-separated list of patterns.
508See PATTERNS in
509.Xr ssh_config 5
510for more information on patterns.
511.Pp
512In addition to the wildcard matching that may be applied to hostnames or
513addresses, a
514.Cm from
515stanza may match IP addresses using CIDR address/masklen notation.
516.Pp
517The purpose of this option is to optionally increase security: public key
518authentication by itself does not trust the network or name servers or
519anything (but the key); however, if somebody somehow steals the key, the key
520permits an intruder to log in from anywhere in the world.
521This additional option makes using a stolen key more difficult (name
522servers and/or routers would have to be compromised in addition to
523just the key).
524.It Cm no-agent-forwarding
525Forbids authentication agent forwarding when this key is used for
526authentication.
527.It Cm no-port-forwarding
528Forbids TCP forwarding when this key is used for authentication.
529Any port forward requests by the client will return an error.
530This might be used, e.g. in connection with the
531.Cm command
532option.
533.It Cm no-pty
534Prevents tty allocation (a request to allocate a pty will fail).
535.It Cm no-user-rc
536Disables execution of
537.Pa ~/.ssh/rc .
538.It Cm no-X11-forwarding
539Forbids X11 forwarding when this key is used for authentication.
540Any X11 forward requests by the client will return an error.
541.It Cm permitlisten="[host:]port"
542Limit remote port forwarding with the
543.Xr ssh 1
544.Fl R
545option such that it may only listen on the specified host (optional) and port.
546IPv6 addresses can be specified by enclosing the address in square brackets.
547Multiple
548.Cm permitlisten
549options may be applied separated by commas.
550Hostnames may include wildcards as described in the PATTERNS section in
551.Xr ssh_config 5 .
552A port specification of
553.Cm *
554matches any port.
555Note that the setting of
556.Cm GatewayPorts
557may further restrict listen addresses.
558Note that
559.Xr ssh 1
560will send a hostname of
561.Dq localhost
562if a listen host was not specified when the forwarding was requested, and
563that this name is treated differently to the explicit localhost addresses
564.Dq 127.0.0.1
565and
566.Dq ::1 .
567.It Cm permitopen="host:port"
568Limit local port forwarding with the
569.Xr ssh 1
570.Fl L
571option such that it may only connect to the specified host and port.
572IPv6 addresses can be specified by enclosing the address in square brackets.
573Multiple
574.Cm permitopen
575options may be applied separated by commas.
576No pattern matching or name lookup is performed on the
577specified hostnames, they must be literal host names and/or addresses.
578A port specification of
579.Cm *
580matches any port.
581.It Cm port-forwarding
582Enable port forwarding previously disabled by the
583.Cm restrict
584option.
585.It Cm principals="principals"
586On a
587.Cm cert-authority
588line, specifies allowed principals for certificate authentication as a
589comma-separated list.
590At least one name from the list must appear in the certificate's
591list of principals for the certificate to be accepted.
592This option is ignored for keys that are not marked as trusted certificate
593signers using the
594.Cm cert-authority
595option.
596.It Cm pty
597Permits tty allocation previously disabled by the
598.Cm restrict
599option.
600.It Cm no-touch-required
601Do not require demonstration of user presence
602for signatures made using this key.
603This option only makes sense for the FIDO authenticator algorithms
604.Cm ecdsa-sk
605and
606.Cm ed25519-sk .
607.It Cm restrict
608Enable all restrictions, i.e. disable port, agent and X11 forwarding,
609as well as disabling PTY allocation
610and execution of
611.Pa ~/.ssh/rc .
612If any future restriction capabilities are added to authorized_keys files
613they will be included in this set.
614.It Cm tunnel="n"
615Force a
616.Xr tun 4
617device on the server.
618Without this option, the next available device will be used if
619the client requests a tunnel.
620.It Cm user-rc
621Enables execution of
622.Pa ~/.ssh/rc
623previously disabled by the
624.Cm restrict
625option.
626.It Cm X11-forwarding
627Permits X11 forwarding previously disabled by the
628.Cm restrict
629option.
630.El
631.Pp
632An example authorized_keys file:
633.Bd -literal -offset 3n
634# Comments allowed at start of line
635ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza...LiPk== user@example.net
636from="*.sales.example.net,!pc.sales.example.net" ssh-rsa
637AAAAB2...19Q== john@example.net
638command="dump /home",no-pty,no-port-forwarding ssh-rsa
639AAAAC3...51R== example.net
640permitopen="192.0.2.1:80",permitopen="192.0.2.2:25" ssh-rsa
641AAAAB5...21S==
642permitlisten="localhost:8080",permitopen="localhost:22000" ssh-rsa
643AAAAB5...21S==
644tunnel="0",command="sh /etc/netstart tun0" ssh-rsa AAAA...==
645jane@example.net
646restrict,command="uptime" ssh-rsa AAAA1C8...32Tv==
647user@example.net
648restrict,pty,command="nethack" ssh-rsa AAAA1f8...IrrC5==
649user@example.net
650no-touch-required sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com AAAAInN...Ko==
651user@example.net
652.Ed
653.Sh SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS FILE FORMAT
654The
655.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
656and
657.Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts
658files contain host public keys for all known hosts.
659The global file should
660be prepared by the administrator (optional), and the per-user file is
661maintained automatically: whenever the user connects to an unknown host,
662its key is added to the per-user file.
663.Pp
664Each line in these files contains the following fields: markers (optional),
665hostnames, keytype, base64-encoded key, comment.
666The fields are separated by spaces.
667.Pp
668The marker is optional, but if it is present then it must be one of
669.Dq @cert-authority ,
670to indicate that the line contains a certification authority (CA) key,
671or
672.Dq @revoked ,
673to indicate that the key contained on the line is revoked and must not ever
674be accepted.
675Only one marker should be used on a key line.
676.Pp
677Hostnames is a comma-separated list of patterns
678.Pf ( Ql *
679and
680.Ql \&?
681act as
682wildcards); each pattern in turn is matched against the host name.
683When
684.Nm sshd
685is authenticating a client, such as when using
686.Cm HostbasedAuthentication ,
687this will be the canonical client host name.
688When
689.Xr ssh 1
690is authenticating a server, this will be the host name
691given by the user, the value of the
692.Xr ssh 1
693.Cm HostkeyAlias
694if it was specified, or the canonical server hostname if the
695.Xr ssh 1
696.Cm CanonicalizeHostname
697option was used.
698.Pp
699A pattern may also be preceded by
700.Ql \&!
701to indicate negation: if the host name matches a negated
702pattern, it is not accepted (by that line) even if it matched another
703pattern on the line.
704A hostname or address may optionally be enclosed within
705.Ql \&[
706and
707.Ql \&]
708brackets then followed by
709.Ql \&:
710and a non-standard port number.
711.Pp
712Alternately, hostnames may be stored in a hashed form which hides host names
713and addresses should the file's contents be disclosed.
714Hashed hostnames start with a
715.Ql |
716character.
717Only one hashed hostname may appear on a single line and none of the above
718negation or wildcard operators may be applied.
719.Pp
720The keytype and base64-encoded key are taken directly from the host key; they
721can be obtained, for example, from
722.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub .
723The optional comment field continues to the end of the line, and is not used.
724.Pp
725Lines starting with
726.Ql #
727and empty lines are ignored as comments.
728.Pp
729When performing host authentication, authentication is accepted if any
730matching line has the proper key; either one that matches exactly or,
731if the server has presented a certificate for authentication, the key
732of the certification authority that signed the certificate.
733For a key to be trusted as a certification authority, it must use the
734.Dq @cert-authority
735marker described above.
736.Pp
737The known hosts file also provides a facility to mark keys as revoked,
738for example when it is known that the associated private key has been
739stolen.
740Revoked keys are specified by including the
741.Dq @revoked
742marker at the beginning of the key line, and are never accepted for
743authentication or as certification authorities, but instead will
744produce a warning from
745.Xr ssh 1
746when they are encountered.
747.Pp
748It is permissible (but not
749recommended) to have several lines or different host keys for the same
750names.
751This will inevitably happen when short forms of host names
752from different domains are put in the file.
753It is possible
754that the files contain conflicting information; authentication is
755accepted if valid information can be found from either file.
756.Pp
757Note that the lines in these files are typically hundreds of characters
758long, and you definitely don't want to type in the host keys by hand.
759Rather, generate them by a script,
760.Xr ssh-keyscan 1
761or by taking, for example,
762.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
763and adding the host names at the front.
764.Xr ssh-keygen 1
765also offers some basic automated editing for
766.Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts
767including removing hosts matching a host name and converting all host
768names to their hashed representations.
769.Pp
770An example ssh_known_hosts file:
771.Bd -literal -offset 3n
772# Comments allowed at start of line
773closenet,...,192.0.2.53 1024 37 159...93 closenet.example.net
774cvs.example.net,192.0.2.10 ssh-rsa AAAA1234.....=
775# A hashed hostname
776|1|JfKTdBh7rNbXkVAQCRp4OQoPfmI=|USECr3SWf1JUPsms5AqfD5QfxkM= ssh-rsa
777AAAA1234.....=
778# A revoked key
779@revoked * ssh-rsa AAAAB5W...
780# A CA key, accepted for any host in *.mydomain.com or *.mydomain.org
781@cert-authority *.mydomain.org,*.mydomain.com ssh-rsa AAAAB5W...
782.Ed
783.Sh FILES
784.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
785.It Pa ~/.hushlogin
786This file is used to suppress printing the last login time and
787.Pa /etc/motd ,
788if
789.Cm PrintLastLog
790and
791.Cm PrintMotd ,
792respectively,
793are enabled.
794It does not suppress printing of the banner specified by
795.Cm Banner .
796.Pp
797.It Pa ~/.rhosts
798This file is used for host-based authentication (see
799.Xr ssh 1
800for more information).
801On some machines this file may need to be
802world-readable if the user's home directory is on an NFS partition,
803because
804.Nm
805reads it as root.
806Additionally, this file must be owned by the user,
807and must not have write permissions for anyone else.
808The recommended
809permission for most machines is read/write for the user, and not
810accessible by others.
811.Pp
812.It Pa ~/.shosts
813This file is used in exactly the same way as
814.Pa .rhosts ,
815but allows host-based authentication without permitting login with
816rlogin/rsh.
817.Pp
818.It Pa ~/.ssh/
819This directory is the default location for all user-specific configuration
820and authentication information.
821There is no general requirement to keep the entire contents of this directory
822secret, but the recommended permissions are read/write/execute for the user,
823and not accessible by others.
824.Pp
825.It Pa ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
826Lists the public keys (DSA, ECDSA, Ed25519, RSA)
827that can be used for logging in as this user.
828The format of this file is described above.
829The content of the file is not highly sensitive, but the recommended
830permissions are read/write for the user, and not accessible by others.
831.Pp
832If this file, the
833.Pa ~/.ssh
834directory, or the user's home directory are writable
835by other users, then the file could be modified or replaced by unauthorized
836users.
837In this case,
838.Nm
839will not allow it to be used unless the
840.Cm StrictModes
841option has been set to
842.Dq no .
843.Pp
844.It Pa ~/.ssh/environment
845This file is read into the environment at login (if it exists).
846It can only contain empty lines, comment lines (that start with
847.Ql # ) ,
848and assignment lines of the form name=value.
849The file should be writable
850only by the user; it need not be readable by anyone else.
851Environment processing is disabled by default and is
852controlled via the
853.Cm PermitUserEnvironment
854option.
855.Pp
856.It Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts
857Contains a list of host keys for all hosts the user has logged into
858that are not already in the systemwide list of known host keys.
859The format of this file is described above.
860This file should be writable only by root/the owner and
861can, but need not be, world-readable.
862.Pp
863.It Pa ~/.ssh/rc
864Contains initialization routines to be run before
865the user's home directory becomes accessible.
866This file should be writable only by the user, and need not be
867readable by anyone else.
868.Pp
869.It Pa /etc/hosts.equiv
870This file is for host-based authentication (see
871.Xr ssh 1 ) .
872It should only be writable by root.
873.Pp
874.It Pa /etc/moduli
875Contains Diffie-Hellman groups used for the "Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange"
876key exchange method.
877The file format is described in
878.Xr moduli 5 .
879If no usable groups are found in this file then fixed internal groups will
880be used.
881.Pp
882.It Pa /etc/motd
883See
884.Xr motd 5 .
885.Pp
886.It Pa /etc/nologin
887If this file exists,
888.Nm
889refuses to let anyone except root log in.
890The contents of the file
891are displayed to anyone trying to log in, and non-root connections are
892refused.
893The file should be world-readable.
894.Pp
895.It Pa /etc/shosts.equiv
896This file is used in exactly the same way as
897.Pa hosts.equiv ,
898but allows host-based authentication without permitting login with
899rlogin/rsh.
900.Pp
901.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
902.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
903.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
904These files contain the private parts of the host keys.
905These files should only be owned by root, readable only by root, and not
906accessible to others.
907Note that
908.Nm
909does not start if these files are group/world-accessible.
910.Pp
911.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub
912.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
913.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
914These files contain the public parts of the host keys.
915These files should be world-readable but writable only by
916root.
917Their contents should match the respective private parts.
918These files are not
919really used for anything; they are provided for the convenience of
920the user so their contents can be copied to known hosts files.
921These files are created using
922.Xr ssh-keygen 1 .
923.Pp
924.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
925Systemwide list of known host keys.
926This file should be prepared by the
927system administrator to contain the public host keys of all machines in the
928organization.
929The format of this file is described above.
930This file should be writable only by root/the owner and
931should be world-readable.
932.Pp
933.It Pa /etc/ssh/sshd_config
934Contains configuration data for
935.Nm sshd .
936The file format and configuration options are described in
937.Xr sshd_config 5 .
938.Pp
939.It Pa /etc/ssh/sshrc
940Similar to
941.Pa ~/.ssh/rc ,
942it can be used to specify
943machine-specific login-time initializations globally.
944This file should be writable only by root, and should be world-readable.
945.Pp
946.It Pa /var/empty
947.Xr chroot 2
948directory used by
949.Nm
950during privilege separation in the pre-authentication phase.
951The directory should not contain any files and must be owned by root
952and not group or world-writable.
953.Pp
954.It Pa /var/run/sshd.pid
955Contains the process ID of the
956.Nm
957listening for connections (if there are several daemons running
958concurrently for different ports, this contains the process ID of the one
959started last).
960The content of this file is not sensitive; it can be world-readable.
961.El
962.Sh SEE ALSO
963.Xr scp 1 ,
964.Xr sftp 1 ,
965.Xr ssh 1 ,
966.Xr ssh-add 1 ,
967.Xr ssh-agent 1 ,
968.Xr ssh-keygen 1 ,
969.Xr ssh-keyscan 1 ,
970.Xr chroot 2 ,
971.Xr login.conf 5 ,
972.Xr moduli 5 ,
973.Xr sshd_config 5 ,
974.Xr inetd 8 ,
975.Xr sftp-server 8
976.Sh AUTHORS
977OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free
978ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.
979Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
980Theo de Raadt and Dug Song
981removed many bugs, re-added newer features and
982created OpenSSH.
983Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
984protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.
985Niels Provos and Markus Friedl contributed support
986for privilege separation.
987