1SSHD_CONFIG(5) BSD File Formats Manual SSHD_CONFIG(5)
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4 sshd_config — OpenSSH daemon configuration file
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7 sshd(8) reads configuration data from /etc/gsissh/sshd_config (or the
8 file specified with -f on the command line). The file contains keyword-
9 argument pairs, one per line. For each keyword, the first obtained value
10 will be used. Lines starting with ‘#’ and empty lines are interpreted as
11 comments. Arguments may optionally be enclosed in double quotes (") in
12 order to represent arguments containing spaces.
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14 The possible keywords and their meanings are as follows (note that key‐
15 words are case-insensitive and arguments are case-sensitive):
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17 AcceptEnv
18 Specifies what environment variables sent by the client will be
19 copied into the session's environ(7). See SendEnv and SetEnv in
20 ssh_config(5) for how to configure the client. The TERM environ‐
21 ment variable is always accepted whenever the client requests a
22 pseudo-terminal as it is required by the protocol. Variables are
23 specified by name, which may contain the wildcard characters ‘*’
24 and ‘?’. Multiple environment variables may be separated by
25 whitespace or spread across multiple AcceptEnv directives. Be
26 warned that some environment variables could be used to bypass
27 restricted user environments. For this reason, care should be
28 taken in the use of this directive. The default is not to accept
29 any environment variables.
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31 AddressFamily
32 Specifies which address family should be used by sshd(8). Valid
33 arguments are any (the default), inet (use IPv4 only), or inet6
34 (use IPv6 only).
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36 AllowAgentForwarding
37 Specifies whether ssh-agent(1) forwarding is permitted. The de‐
38 fault is yes. Note that disabling agent forwarding does not im‐
39 prove security unless users are also denied shell access, as they
40 can always install their own forwarders.
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42 AllowGroups
43 This keyword can be followed by a list of group name patterns,
44 separated by spaces. If specified, login is allowed only for
45 users whose primary group or supplementary group list matches one
46 of the patterns. Only group names are valid; a numerical group
47 ID is not recognized. By default, login is allowed for all
48 groups. The allow/deny groups directives are processed in the
49 following order: DenyGroups, AllowGroups.
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51 See PATTERNS in ssh_config(5) for more information on patterns.
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53 AllowStreamLocalForwarding
54 Specifies whether StreamLocal (Unix-domain socket) forwarding is
55 permitted. The available options are yes (the default) or all to
56 allow StreamLocal forwarding, no to prevent all StreamLocal for‐
57 warding, local to allow local (from the perspective of ssh(1))
58 forwarding only or remote to allow remote forwarding only. Note
59 that disabling StreamLocal forwarding does not improve security
60 unless users are also denied shell access, as they can always in‐
61 stall their own forwarders.
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63 AllowTcpForwarding
64 Specifies whether TCP forwarding is permitted. The available op‐
65 tions are yes (the default) or all to allow TCP forwarding, no to
66 prevent all TCP forwarding, local to allow local (from the per‐
67 spective of ssh(1)) forwarding only or remote to allow remote
68 forwarding only. Note that disabling TCP forwarding does not im‐
69 prove security unless users are also denied shell access, as they
70 can always install their own forwarders.
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72 AllowUsers
73 This keyword can be followed by a list of user name patterns,
74 separated by spaces. If specified, login is allowed only for
75 user names that match one of the patterns. Only user names are
76 valid; a numerical user ID is not recognized. By default, login
77 is allowed for all users. If the pattern takes the form
78 USER@HOST then USER and HOST are separately checked, restricting
79 logins to particular users from particular hosts. HOST criteria
80 may additionally contain addresses to match in CIDR ad‐
81 dress/masklen format. The allow/deny users directives are pro‐
82 cessed in the following order: DenyUsers, AllowUsers.
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84 See PATTERNS in ssh_config(5) for more information on patterns.
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86 AuthenticationMethods
87 Specifies the authentication methods that must be successfully
88 completed for a user to be granted access. This option must be
89 followed by one or more lists of comma-separated authentication
90 method names, or by the single string any to indicate the default
91 behaviour of accepting any single authentication method. If the
92 default is overridden, then successful authentication requires
93 completion of every method in at least one of these lists.
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95 For example, "publickey,password publickey,keyboard-interactive"
96 would require the user to complete public key authentication,
97 followed by either password or keyboard interactive authentica‐
98 tion. Only methods that are next in one or more lists are of‐
99 fered at each stage, so for this example it would not be possible
100 to attempt password or keyboard-interactive authentication before
101 public key.
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103 For keyboard interactive authentication it is also possible to
104 restrict authentication to a specific device by appending a colon
105 followed by the device identifier bsdauth or pam. depending on
106 the server configuration. For example,
107 "keyboard-interactive:bsdauth" would restrict keyboard interac‐
108 tive authentication to the bsdauth device.
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110 If the publickey method is listed more than once, sshd(8) veri‐
111 fies that keys that have been used successfully are not reused
112 for subsequent authentications. For example,
113 "publickey,publickey" requires successful authentication using
114 two different public keys.
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116 Note that each authentication method listed should also be ex‐
117 plicitly enabled in the configuration.
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119 The available authentication methods are: "gssapi-with-mic",
120 "hostbased", "keyboard-interactive", "none" (used for access to
121 password-less accounts when PermitEmptyPasswords is enabled),
122 "password" and "publickey".
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124 AuthorizedKeysCommand
125 Specifies a program to be used to look up the user's public keys.
126 The program must be owned by root, not writable by group or oth‐
127 ers and specified by an absolute path. Arguments to
128 AuthorizedKeysCommand accept the tokens described in the TOKENS
129 section. If no arguments are specified then the username of the
130 target user is used.
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132 The program should produce on standard output zero or more lines
133 of authorized_keys output (see AUTHORIZED_KEYS in sshd(8)).
134 AuthorizedKeysCommand is tried after the usual AuthorizedKeysFile
135 files and will not be executed if a matching key is found there.
136 By default, no AuthorizedKeysCommand is run.
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138 AuthorizedKeysCommandUser
139 Specifies the user under whose account the AuthorizedKeysCommand
140 is run. It is recommended to use a dedicated user that has no
141 other role on the host than running authorized keys commands. If
142 AuthorizedKeysCommand is specified but AuthorizedKeysCommandUser
143 is not, then sshd(8) will refuse to start.
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145 AuthorizedKeysFile
146 Specifies the file that contains the public keys used for user
147 authentication. The format is described in the AUTHORIZED_KEYS
148 FILE FORMAT section of sshd(8). Arguments to AuthorizedKeysFile
149 accept the tokens described in the TOKENS section. After expan‐
150 sion, AuthorizedKeysFile is taken to be an absolute path or one
151 relative to the user's home directory. Multiple files may be
152 listed, separated by whitespace. Alternately this option may be
153 set to none to skip checking for user keys in files. The default
154 is ".ssh/authorized_keys .ssh/authorized_keys2".
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156 AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand
157 Specifies a program to be used to generate the list of allowed
158 certificate principals as per AuthorizedPrincipalsFile. The pro‐
159 gram must be owned by root, not writable by group or others and
160 specified by an absolute path. Arguments to
161 AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand accept the tokens described in the
162 TOKENS section. If no arguments are specified then the username
163 of the target user is used.
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165 The program should produce on standard output zero or more lines
166 of AuthorizedPrincipalsFile output. If either
167 AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand or AuthorizedPrincipalsFile is speci‐
168 fied, then certificates offered by the client for authentication
169 must contain a principal that is listed. By default, no
170 AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand is run.
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172 AuthorizedPrincipalsCommandUser
173 Specifies the user under whose account the
174 AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand is run. It is recommended to use a
175 dedicated user that has no other role on the host than running
176 authorized principals commands. If AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand
177 is specified but AuthorizedPrincipalsCommandUser is not, then
178 sshd(8) will refuse to start.
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180 AuthorizedPrincipalsFile
181 Specifies a file that lists principal names that are accepted for
182 certificate authentication. When using certificates signed by a
183 key listed in TrustedUserCAKeys, this file lists names, one of
184 which must appear in the certificate for it to be accepted for
185 authentication. Names are listed one per line preceded by key
186 options (as described in AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT in sshd(8)).
187 Empty lines and comments starting with ‘#’ are ignored.
188
189 Arguments to AuthorizedPrincipalsFile accept the tokens described
190 in the TOKENS section. After expansion, AuthorizedPrincipalsFile
191 is taken to be an absolute path or one relative to the user's
192 home directory. The default is none, i.e. not to use a princi‐
193 pals file – in this case, the username of the user must appear in
194 a certificate's principals list for it to be accepted.
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196 Note that AuthorizedPrincipalsFile is only used when authentica‐
197 tion proceeds using a CA listed in TrustedUserCAKeys and is not
198 consulted for certification authorities trusted via
199 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, though the principals= key option offers
200 a similar facility (see sshd(8) for details).
201
202 Banner The contents of the specified file are sent to the remote user
203 before authentication is allowed. If the argument is none then
204 no banner is displayed. By default, no banner is displayed.
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206 CASignatureAlgorithms
207 The default is handled system-wide by crypto-policies(7). Infor‐
208 mation about defaults, how to modify the defaults and how to cus‐
209 tomize existing policies with sub-policies are present in manual
210 page update-crypto-policies(8).
211
212 Specifies which algorithms are allowed for signing of certifi‐
213 cates by certificate authorities (CAs). If the specified list
214 begins with a ‘+’ character, then the specified algorithms will
215 be appended to the default set instead of replacing them. If the
216 specified list begins with a ‘-’ character, then the specified
217 algorithms (including wildcards) will be removed from the default
218 set instead of replacing them.
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220 Certificates signed using other algorithms will not be accepted
221 for public key or host-based authentication.
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223 ChrootDirectory
224 Specifies the pathname of a directory to chroot(2) to after au‐
225 thentication. At session startup sshd(8) checks that all compo‐
226 nents of the pathname are root-owned directories which are not
227 writable by any other user or group. After the chroot, sshd(8)
228 changes the working directory to the user's home directory. Ar‐
229 guments to ChrootDirectory accept the tokens described in the
230 TOKENS section.
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232 The ChrootDirectory must contain the necessary files and directo‐
233 ries to support the user's session. For an interactive session
234 this requires at least a shell, typically sh(1), and basic /dev
235 nodes such as null(4), zero(4), stdin(4), stdout(4), stderr(4),
236 and tty(4) devices. For file transfer sessions using SFTP no ad‐
237 ditional configuration of the environment is necessary if the in-
238 process sftp-server is used, though sessions which use logging
239 may require /dev/log inside the chroot directory on some operat‐
240 ing systems (see sftp-server(8) for details).
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242 For safety, it is very important that the directory hierarchy be
243 prevented from modification by other processes on the system (es‐
244 pecially those outside the jail). Misconfiguration can lead to
245 unsafe environments which sshd(8) cannot detect.
246
247 The default is none, indicating not to chroot(2).
248
249 Ciphers
250 The default is handled system-wide by crypto-policies(7). Infor‐
251 mation about defaults, how to modify the defaults and how to cus‐
252 tomize existing policies with sub-policies are present in manual
253 page update-crypto-policies(8).
254
255 Specifies the ciphers allowed. Multiple ciphers must be comma-
256 separated. If the specified list begins with a ‘+’ character,
257 then the specified ciphers will be appended to the built-in
258 openssh default set instead of replacing them. If the specified
259 list begins with a ‘-’ character, then the specified ciphers (in‐
260 cluding wildcards) will be removed from the built-in openssh de‐
261 fault set instead of replacing them. If the specified list be‐
262 gins with a ‘^’ character, then the specified ciphers will be
263 placed at the head of the built-in openssh default set.
264
265 The supported ciphers are:
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267 3des-cbc
268 aes128-cbc
269 aes192-cbc
270 aes256-cbc
271 aes128-ctr
272 aes192-ctr
273 aes256-ctr
274 aes128-gcm@openssh.com
275 aes256-gcm@openssh.com
276 chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com
277
278 The list of available ciphers may also be obtained using "ssh -Q
279 cipher".
280
281 ClientAliveCountMax
282 Sets the number of client alive messages which may be sent with‐
283 out sshd(8) receiving any messages back from the client. If this
284 threshold is reached while client alive messages are being sent,
285 sshd will disconnect the client, terminating the session. It is
286 important to note that the use of client alive messages is very
287 different from TCPKeepAlive. The client alive messages are sent
288 through the encrypted channel and therefore will not be spoofa‐
289 ble. The TCP keepalive option enabled by TCPKeepAlive is spoofa‐
290 ble. The client alive mechanism is valuable when the client or
291 server depend on knowing when a connection has become unrespon‐
292 sive.
293
294 The default value is 3. If ClientAliveInterval is set to 15, and
295 ClientAliveCountMax is left at the default, unresponsive SSH
296 clients will be disconnected after approximately 45 seconds.
297 Setting a zero ClientAliveCountMax disables connection termina‐
298 tion.
299
300 ClientAliveInterval
301 Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has
302 been received from the client, sshd(8) will send a message
303 through the encrypted channel to request a response from the
304 client. The default is 0, indicating that these messages will
305 not be sent to the client.
306
307 Compression
308 Specifies whether compression is enabled after the user has au‐
309 thenticated successfully. The argument must be yes, delayed (a
310 legacy synonym for yes) or no. The default is yes.
311
312 DenyGroups
313 This keyword can be followed by a list of group name patterns,
314 separated by spaces. Login is disallowed for users whose primary
315 group or supplementary group list matches one of the patterns.
316 Only group names are valid; a numerical group ID is not recog‐
317 nized. By default, login is allowed for all groups. The al‐
318 low/deny groups directives are processed in the following order:
319 DenyGroups, AllowGroups.
320
321 See PATTERNS in ssh_config(5) for more information on patterns.
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323 DenyUsers
324 This keyword can be followed by a list of user name patterns,
325 separated by spaces. Login is disallowed for user names that
326 match one of the patterns. Only user names are valid; a numeri‐
327 cal user ID is not recognized. By default, login is allowed for
328 all users. If the pattern takes the form USER@HOST then USER and
329 HOST are separately checked, restricting logins to particular
330 users from particular hosts. HOST criteria may additionally con‐
331 tain addresses to match in CIDR address/masklen format. The al‐
332 low/deny users directives are processed in the following order:
333 DenyUsers, AllowUsers.
334
335 See PATTERNS in ssh_config(5) for more information on patterns.
336
337 DisableForwarding
338 Disables all forwarding features, including X11, ssh-agent(1),
339 TCP and StreamLocal. This option overrides all other forwarding-
340 related options and may simplify restricted configurations.
341
342 ExposeAuthInfo
343 Writes a temporary file containing a list of authentication meth‐
344 ods and public credentials (e.g. keys) used to authenticate the
345 user. The location of the file is exposed to the user session
346 through the SSH_USER_AUTH environment variable. The default is
347 no.
348
349 FingerprintHash
350 Specifies the hash algorithm used when logging key fingerprints.
351 Valid options are: md5 and sha256. The default is sha256.
352
353 ForceCommand
354 Forces the execution of the command specified by ForceCommand,
355 ignoring any command supplied by the client and ~/.ssh/rc if
356 present. The command is invoked by using the user's login shell
357 with the -c option. This applies to shell, command, or subsystem
358 execution. It is most useful inside a Match block. The command
359 originally supplied by the client is available in the
360 SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND environment variable. Specifying a command
361 of internal-sftp will force the use of an in-process SFTP server
362 that requires no support files when used with ChrootDirectory.
363 The default is none.
364
365 GatewayPorts
366 Specifies whether remote hosts are allowed to connect to ports
367 forwarded for the client. By default, sshd(8) binds remote port
368 forwardings to the loopback address. This prevents other remote
369 hosts from connecting to forwarded ports. GatewayPorts can be
370 used to specify that sshd should allow remote port forwardings to
371 bind to non-loopback addresses, thus allowing other hosts to con‐
372 nect. The argument may be no to force remote port forwardings to
373 be available to the local host only, yes to force remote port
374 forwardings to bind to the wildcard address, or clientspecified
375 to allow the client to select the address to which the forwarding
376 is bound. The default is no.
377
378 GSIAllowLimitedProxy
379 Specifies whether to accept limited proxy credentials for authen‐
380 tication. The default is no.
381
382 GSSAPIAuthentication
383 Specifies whether user authentication based on GSSAPI is allowed.
384 The default is yes.
385
386 GSSAPICleanupCredentials
387 Specifies whether to automatically destroy the user's credentials
388 cache on logout. The default is yes.
389
390 GSSAPICredentialsPath
391 If specified, the delegated GSSAPI credential is stored in the
392 given path, overwriting any existing credentials. Paths can be
393 specified with syntax similar to the AuthorizedKeysFile option
394 (i.e., accepting %h and %u tokens). When using this option, set‐
395 ting 'GssapiCleanupCredentials no' is recommended, so logging out
396 of one session doesn't remove the credentials in use by another
397 session of the same user. Currently only implemented for the GSI
398 mechanism.
399
400 GSSAPIDelegateCredentials
401 Specifies whether delegated credentials are stored in the user's
402 environment. The default is yes.
403
404 GSSAPIEnablek5users
405 Specifies whether to look at .k5users file for GSSAPI authentica‐
406 tion access control. Further details are described in ksu(1).
407 The default is no.
408
409 GSSAPIKeyExchange
410 Specifies whether key exchange based on GSSAPI is allowed. GSSAPI
411 key exchange doesn't rely on ssh keys to verify host identity.
412 The default is yes.
413
414 GSSAPIStrictAcceptorCheck
415 Determines whether to be strict about the identity of the GSSAPI
416 acceptor a client authenticates against. If set to yes then the
417 client must authenticate against the host service on the current
418 hostname. If set to no then the client may authenticate against
419 any service key stored in the machine's default store. This fa‐
420 cility is provided to assist with operation on multi homed ma‐
421 chines. The default is yes.
422
423 GSSAPIStoreCredentialsOnRekey
424 Controls whether the user's GSSAPI credentials should be updated
425 following a successful connection rekeying. This option can be
426 used to accepted renewed or updated credentials from a compatible
427 client. The default is “no”.
428
429 For this to work GSSAPIKeyExchange needs to be enabled in the
430 server and also used by the client.
431
432 GSSAPIKexAlgorithms
433 The default is handled system-wide by crypto-policies(7). Infor‐
434 mation about defaults, how to modify the defaults and how to cus‐
435 tomize existing policies with sub-policies are present in manual
436 page update-crypto-policies(8).
437
438 The list of key exchange algorithms that are accepted by GSSAPI
439 key exchange. Possible values are
440
441 gss-gex-sha1-
442 gss-group1-sha1-
443 gss-group14-sha1-
444 gss-group14-sha256-
445 gss-group16-sha512-
446 gss-nistp256-sha256-
447 gss-curve25519-sha256-
448 This option only applies to connections using GSSAPI.
449
450 HostbasedAcceptedAlgorithms
451 The default is handled system-wide by crypto-policies(7). Infor‐
452 mation about defaults, how to modify the defaults and how to cus‐
453 tomize existing policies with sub-policies are present in manual
454 page update-crypto-policies(8).
455
456 Specifies the signature algorithms that will be accepted for
457 hostbased authentication as a list of comma-separated patterns.
458 Alternately if the specified list begins with a ‘+’ character,
459 then the specified signature algorithms will be appended to the
460 built-in openssh default set instead of replacing them. If the
461 specified list begins with a ‘-’ character, then the specified
462 signature algorithms (including wildcards) will be removed from
463 the built-in openssh default set instead of replacing them. If
464 the specified list begins with a ‘^’ character, then the speci‐
465 fied signature algorithms will be placed at the head of the
466 built-in openssh default set.
467
468 The list of available signature algorithms may also be obtained
469 using "ssh -Q HostbasedAcceptedAlgorithms". This was formerly
470 named HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes.
471
472 HostbasedAuthentication
473 Specifies whether rhosts or /etc/hosts.equiv authentication to‐
474 gether with successful public key client host authentication is
475 allowed (host-based authentication). The default is no.
476
477 HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly
478 Specifies whether or not the server will attempt to perform a re‐
479 verse name lookup when matching the name in the ~/.shosts,
480 ~/.rhosts, and /etc/hosts.equiv files during
481 HostbasedAuthentication. A setting of yes means that sshd(8)
482 uses the name supplied by the client rather than attempting to
483 resolve the name from the TCP connection itself. The default is
484 no.
485
486 HostCertificate
487 Specifies a file containing a public host certificate. The cer‐
488 tificate's public key must match a private host key already spec‐
489 ified by HostKey. The default behaviour of sshd(8) is not to
490 load any certificates.
491
492 HostKey
493 Specifies a file containing a private host key used by SSH. The
494 defaults are /etc/gsissh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key,
495 /etc/gsissh/ssh_host_ed25519_key and
496 /etc/gsissh/ssh_host_rsa_key.
497
498 Note that sshd(8) will refuse to use a file if it is group/world-
499 accessible and that the HostKeyAlgorithms option restricts which
500 of the keys are actually used by sshd(8).
501
502 It is possible to have multiple host key files. It is also pos‐
503 sible to specify public host key files instead. In this case op‐
504 erations on the private key will be delegated to an ssh-agent(1).
505
506 HostKeyAgent
507 Identifies the UNIX-domain socket used to communicate with an
508 agent that has access to the private host keys. If the string
509 "SSH_AUTH_SOCK" is specified, the location of the socket will be
510 read from the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable.
511
512 HostKeyAlgorithms
513 The default is handled system-wide by crypto-policies(7). Infor‐
514 mation about defaults, how to modify the defaults and how to cus‐
515 tomize existing policies with sub-policies are present in manual
516 page update-crypto-policies(8).
517
518 Specifies the host key signature algorithms that the server of‐
519 fers. The default for this option is: The list of available sig‐
520 nature algorithms may also be obtained using "ssh -Q
521 HostKeyAlgorithms".
522
523 IgnoreRhosts
524 Specifies whether to ignore per-user .rhosts and .shosts files
525 during HostbasedAuthentication. The system-wide /etc/hosts.equiv
526 and /etc/gsissh/shosts.equiv are still used regardless of this
527 setting.
528
529 Accepted values are yes (the default) to ignore all per-user
530 files, shosts-only to allow the use of .shosts but to ignore
531 .rhosts or no to allow both .shosts and rhosts.
532
533 IgnoreUserKnownHosts
534 Specifies whether sshd(8) should ignore the user's
535 ~/.ssh/known_hosts during HostbasedAuthentication and use only
536 the system-wide known hosts file /etc/ssh/known_hosts. The de‐
537 fault is “no”.
538
539 Include
540 Include the specified configuration file(s). Multiple pathnames
541 may be specified and each pathname may contain glob(7) wildcards
542 that will be expanded and processed in lexical order. Files
543 without absolute paths are assumed to be in /etc/ssh. An Include
544 directive may appear inside a Match block to perform conditional
545 inclusion.
546
547 IPQoS Specifies the IPv4 type-of-service or DSCP class for the connec‐
548 tion. Accepted values are af11, af12, af13, af21, af22, af23,
549 af31, af32, af33, af41, af42, af43, cs0, cs1, cs2, cs3, cs4, cs5,
550 cs6, cs7, ef, le, lowdelay, throughput, reliability, a numeric
551 value, or none to use the operating system default. This option
552 may take one or two arguments, separated by whitespace. If one
553 argument is specified, it is used as the packet class uncondi‐
554 tionally. If two values are specified, the first is automati‐
555 cally selected for interactive sessions and the second for non-
556 interactive sessions. The default is af21 (Low-Latency Data) for
557 interactive sessions and cs1 (Lower Effort) for non-interactive
558 sessions.
559
560 KbdInteractiveAuthentication
561 Specifies whether to allow keyboard-interactive authentication.
562 All authentication styles from login.conf(5) are supported. The
563 default is yes. The argument to this keyword must be yes or no.
564 ChallengeResponseAuthentication is a deprecated alias for this.
565
566 KerberosAuthentication
567 Specifies whether the password provided by the user for
568 PasswordAuthentication will be validated through the Kerberos
569 KDC. To use this option, the server needs a Kerberos servtab
570 which allows the verification of the KDC's identity. The default
571 is no.
572
573 KerberosGetAFSToken
574 If AFS is active and the user has a Kerberos 5 TGT, attempt to
575 acquire an AFS token before accessing the user's home directory.
576 The default is no.
577
578 KerberosOrLocalPasswd
579 If password authentication through Kerberos fails then the pass‐
580 word will be validated via any additional local mechanism such as
581 /etc/passwd. The default is yes.
582
583 KerberosTicketCleanup
584 Specifies whether to automatically destroy the user's ticket
585 cache file on logout. The default is yes.
586
587 KerberosUniqueCCache
588 Specifies whether to store the acquired tickets in the per-ses‐
589 sion credential cache under /tmp/ or whether to use per-user cre‐
590 dential cache as configured in /etc/krb5.conf. The default value
591 no can lead to overwriting previous tickets by subseqent connec‐
592 tions to the same user account.
593
594 KerberosUseKuserok
595 Specifies whether to look at .k5login file for user's aliases.
596 The default is yes.
597
598 KexAlgorithms
599 The default is handled system-wide by crypto-policies(7). Infor‐
600 mation about defaults, how to modify the defaults and how to cus‐
601 tomize existing policies with sub-policies are present in manual
602 page update-crypto-policies(8).
603
604 Specifies the available KEX (Key Exchange) algorithms. Multiple
605 algorithms must be comma-separated. Alternately if the specified
606 list begins with a ‘+’ character, then the specified methods will
607 be appended to the built-in openssh default set instead of re‐
608 placing them. If the specified list begins with a ‘-’ character,
609 then the specified algorithms (including wildcards) will be re‐
610 moved from the built-in openssh default set instead of replacing
611 them. If the specified list begins with a ‘^’ character, then
612 the specified algorithms will be placed at the head of the built-
613 in openssh default set. The supported algorithms are:
614
615 curve25519-sha256
616 curve25519-sha256@libssh.org
617 diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
618 diffie-hellman-group14-sha1
619 diffie-hellman-group14-sha256
620 diffie-hellman-group16-sha512
621 diffie-hellman-group18-sha512
622 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1
623 diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256
624 ecdh-sha2-nistp256
625 ecdh-sha2-nistp384
626 ecdh-sha2-nistp521
627 sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com
628
629 The list of available key exchange algorithms may also be ob‐
630 tained using "ssh -Q KexAlgorithms".
631
632 ListenAddress
633 Specifies the local addresses sshd(8) should listen on. The fol‐
634 lowing forms may be used:
635
636 ListenAddress hostname|address [rdomain domain]
637 ListenAddress hostname:port [rdomain domain]
638 ListenAddress IPv4_address:port [rdomain domain]
639 ListenAddress [hostname|address]:port [rdomain domain]
640
641 The optional rdomain qualifier requests sshd(8) listen in an ex‐
642 plicit routing domain. If port is not specified, sshd will lis‐
643 ten on the address and all Port options specified. The default
644 is to listen on all local addresses on the current default rout‐
645 ing domain. Multiple ListenAddress options are permitted. For
646 more information on routing domains, see rdomain(4).
647
648 LoginGraceTime
649 The server disconnects after this time if the user has not suc‐
650 cessfully logged in. If the value is 0, there is no time limit.
651 The default is 120 seconds.
652
653 LogLevel
654 Gives the verbosity level that is used when logging messages from
655 sshd(8). The possible values are: QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO,
656 VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1, DEBUG2, and DEBUG3. The default is INFO.
657 DEBUG and DEBUG1 are equivalent. DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify
658 higher levels of debugging output. Logging with a DEBUG level
659 violates the privacy of users and is not recommended.
660
661 LogVerbose
662 Specify one or more overrides to LogLevel. An override consists
663 of a pattern lists that matches the source file, function and
664 line number to force detailed logging for. For example, an over‐
665 ride pattern of:
666
667 kex.c:*:1000,*:kex_exchange_identification():*,packet.c:*
668
669 would enable detailed logging for line 1000 of kex.c, everything
670 in the kex_exchange_identification() function, and all code in
671 the packet.c file. This option is intended for debugging and no
672 overrides are enabled by default.
673
674 MACs The default is handled system-wide by crypto-policies(7). Infor‐
675 mation about defaults, how to modify the defaults and how to cus‐
676 tomize existing policies with sub-policies are present in manual
677 page update-crypto-policies(8).
678
679 Specifies the available MAC (message authentication code) algo‐
680 rithms. The MAC algorithm is used for data integrity protection.
681 Multiple algorithms must be comma-separated. If the specified
682 list begins with a ‘+’ character, then the specified algorithms
683 will be appended to the built-in openssh default set instead of
684 replacing them. If the specified list begins with a ‘-’ charac‐
685 ter, then the specified algorithms (including wildcards) will be
686 removed from the built-in openssh default set instead of replac‐
687 ing them. If the specified list begins with a ‘^’ character,
688 then the specified algorithms will be placed at the head of the
689 built-in openssh default set.
690
691 The algorithms that contain "-etm" calculate the MAC after en‐
692 cryption (encrypt-then-mac). These are considered safer and
693 their use recommended. The supported MACs are:
694
695 hmac-md5
696 hmac-md5-96
697 hmac-sha1
698 hmac-sha1-96
699 hmac-sha2-256
700 hmac-sha2-512
701 umac-64@openssh.com
702 umac-128@openssh.com
703 hmac-md5-etm@openssh.com
704 hmac-md5-96-etm@openssh.com
705 hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com
706 hmac-sha1-96-etm@openssh.com
707 hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com
708 hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com
709 umac-64-etm@openssh.com
710 umac-128-etm@openssh.com
711
712 The list of available MAC algorithms may also be obtained using
713 "ssh -Q mac".
714
715 Match Introduces a conditional block. If all of the criteria on the
716 Match line are satisfied, the keywords on the following lines
717 override those set in the global section of the config file, un‐
718 til either another Match line or the end of the file. If a key‐
719 word appears in multiple Match blocks that are satisfied, only
720 the first instance of the keyword is applied.
721
722 The arguments to Match are one or more criteria-pattern pairs or
723 the single token All which matches all criteria. The available
724 criteria are User, Group, Host, LocalAddress, LocalPort, RDomain,
725 and Address (with RDomain representing the rdomain(4) on which
726 the connection was received).
727
728 The match patterns may consist of single entries or comma-sepa‐
729 rated lists and may use the wildcard and negation operators de‐
730 scribed in the PATTERNS section of ssh_config(5).
731
732 The patterns in an Address criteria may additionally contain ad‐
733 dresses to match in CIDR address/masklen format, such as
734 192.0.2.0/24 or 2001:db8::/32. Note that the mask length pro‐
735 vided must be consistent with the address - it is an error to
736 specify a mask length that is too long for the address or one
737 with bits set in this host portion of the address. For example,
738 192.0.2.0/33 and 192.0.2.0/8, respectively.
739
740 Only a subset of keywords may be used on the lines following a
741 Match keyword. Available keywords are AcceptEnv,
742 AllowAgentForwarding, AllowGroups, AllowStreamLocalForwarding,
743 AllowTcpForwarding, AllowUsers, AuthenticationMethods,
744 AuthorizedKeysCommand, AuthorizedKeysCommandUser,
745 AuthorizedKeysFile, AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand,
746 AuthorizedPrincipalsCommandUser, AuthorizedPrincipalsFile,
747 Banner, CASignatureAlgorithms, ChrootDirectory,
748 ClientAliveCountMax, ClientAliveInterval, DenyGroups, DenyUsers,
749 DisableForwarding, ExposeAuthInfo, ForceCommand, GatewayPorts,
750 GSSAPIAuthentication, HostbasedAcceptedAlgorithms,
751 HostbasedAuthentication, HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly,
752 IgnoreRhosts, Include, IPQoS, KbdInteractiveAuthentication,
753 KerberosAuthentication, KerberosUseKuserok, LogLevel,
754 MaxAuthTries, MaxSessions, PasswordAuthentication,
755 PermitEmptyPasswords, PermitListen, PermitOpen, PermitRootLogin,
756 PermitTTY, PermitTunnel, PermitUserRC, PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms,
757 PubkeyAuthentication, PubkeyAuthOptions, RekeyLimit, RevokedKeys,
758 RDomain, SetEnv, StreamLocalBindMask, StreamLocalBindUnlink,
759 TrustedUserCAKeys, X11DisplayOffset, X11MaxDisplays,
760 X11Forwarding and X11UseLocalhost.
761
762 MaxAuthTries
763 Specifies the maximum number of authentication attempts permitted
764 per connection. Once the number of failures reaches half this
765 value, additional failures are logged. The default is 6.
766
767 MaxSessions
768 Specifies the maximum number of open shell, login or subsystem
769 (e.g. sftp) sessions permitted per network connection. Multiple
770 sessions may be established by clients that support connection
771 multiplexing. Setting MaxSessions to 1 will effectively disable
772 session multiplexing, whereas setting it to 0 will prevent all
773 shell, login and subsystem sessions while still permitting for‐
774 warding. The default is 10.
775
776 MaxStartups
777 Specifies the maximum number of concurrent unauthenticated con‐
778 nections to the SSH daemon. Additional connections will be
779 dropped until authentication succeeds or the LoginGraceTime ex‐
780 pires for a connection. The default is 10:30:100.
781
782 Alternatively, random early drop can be enabled by specifying the
783 three colon separated values start:rate:full (e.g. "10:30:60").
784 sshd(8) will refuse connection attempts with a probability of
785 rate/100 (30%) if there are currently start (10) unauthenticated
786 connections. The probability increases linearly and all connec‐
787 tion attempts are refused if the number of unauthenticated con‐
788 nections reaches full (60).
789
790 ModuliFile
791 Specifies the moduli(5) file that contains the Diffie-Hellman
792 groups used for the “diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1” and
793 “diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256” key exchange methods. The
794 default is /etc/gsissh/moduli.
795
796 PasswordAuthentication
797 Specifies whether password authentication is allowed. The de‐
798 fault is yes.
799
800 PermitEmptyPasswords
801 When password authentication is allowed, it specifies whether the
802 server allows login to accounts with empty password strings. The
803 default is no.
804
805 PermitListen
806 Specifies the addresses/ports on which a remote TCP port forward‐
807 ing may listen. The listen specification must be one of the fol‐
808 lowing forms:
809
810 PermitListen port
811 PermitListen host:port
812
813 Multiple permissions may be specified by separating them with
814 whitespace. An argument of any can be used to remove all re‐
815 strictions and permit any listen requests. An argument of none
816 can be used to prohibit all listen requests. The host name may
817 contain wildcards as described in the PATTERNS section in
818 ssh_config(5). The wildcard ‘*’ can also be used in place of a
819 port number to allow all ports. By default all port forwarding
820 listen requests are permitted. Note that the GatewayPorts option
821 may further restrict which addresses may be listened on. Note
822 also that ssh(1) will request a listen host of “localhost” if no
823 listen host was specifically requested, and this name is treated
824 differently to explicit localhost addresses of “127.0.0.1” and
825 “::1”.
826
827 PermitOpen
828 Specifies the destinations to which TCP port forwarding is per‐
829 mitted. The forwarding specification must be one of the follow‐
830 ing forms:
831
832 PermitOpen host:port
833 PermitOpen IPv4_addr:port
834 PermitOpen [IPv6_addr]:port
835
836 Multiple forwards may be specified by separating them with white‐
837 space. An argument of any can be used to remove all restrictions
838 and permit any forwarding requests. An argument of none can be
839 used to prohibit all forwarding requests. The wildcard ‘*’ can
840 be used for host or port to allow all hosts or ports respec‐
841 tively. Otherwise, no pattern matching or address lookups are
842 performed on supplied names. By default all port forwarding re‐
843 quests are permitted.
844
845 PermitRootLogin
846 Specifies whether root can log in using ssh(1). The argument
847 must be yes, prohibit-password, forced-commands-only, or no. The
848 default is prohibit-password.
849
850 If this option is set to prohibit-password (or its deprecated
851 alias, without-password), password and keyboard-interactive au‐
852 thentication are disabled for root.
853
854 If this option is set to forced-commands-only, root login with
855 public key authentication will be allowed, but only if the
856 command option has been specified (which may be useful for taking
857 remote backups even if root login is normally not allowed). All
858 other authentication methods are disabled for root.
859
860 If this option is set to no, root is not allowed to log in.
861
862 PermitTTY
863 Specifies whether pty(4) allocation is permitted. The default is
864 yes.
865
866 PermitTunnel
867 Specifies whether tun(4) device forwarding is allowed. The argu‐
868 ment must be yes, point-to-point (layer 3), ethernet (layer 2),
869 or no. Specifying yes permits both point-to-point and ethernet.
870 The default is no.
871
872 Independent of this setting, the permissions of the selected
873 tun(4) device must allow access to the user.
874
875 PermitUserEnvironment
876 Specifies whether ~/.ssh/environment and environment= options in
877 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys are processed by sshd(8). Valid options
878 are yes, no or a pattern-list specifying which environment vari‐
879 able names to accept (for example "LANG,LC_*"). The default is
880 no. Enabling environment processing may enable users to bypass
881 access restrictions in some configurations using mechanisms such
882 as LD_PRELOAD.
883
884 PermitUserRC
885 Specifies whether any ~/.ssh/rc file is executed. The default is
886 yes.
887
888 PerSourceMaxStartups
889 Specifies the number of unauthenticated connections allowed from
890 a given source address, or “none” if there is no limit. This
891 limit is applied in addition to MaxStartups, whichever is lower.
892 The default is none.
893
894 PerSourceNetBlockSize
895 Specifies the number of bits of source address that are grouped
896 together for the purposes of applying PerSourceMaxStartups lim‐
897 its. Values for IPv4 and optionally IPv6 may be specified, sepa‐
898 rated by a colon. The default is 32:128, which means each ad‐
899 dress is considered individually.
900
901 PidFile
902 Specifies the file that contains the process ID of the SSH dae‐
903 mon, or none to not write one. The default is
904 /var/run/gsisshd.pid.
905
906 Port Specifies the port number that sshd(8) listens on. The default
907 is 22. Multiple options of this type are permitted. See also
908 ListenAddress.
909
910 PrintLastLog
911 Specifies whether sshd(8) should print the date and time of the
912 last user login when a user logs in interactively. The default
913 is yes.
914
915 PrintMotd
916 Specifies whether sshd(8) should print /etc/motd when a user logs
917 in interactively. (On some systems it is also printed by the
918 shell, /etc/profile, or equivalent.) The default is yes.
919
920 PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms
921 The default is handled system-wide by crypto-policies(7). Infor‐
922 mation about defaults, how to modify the defaults and how to cus‐
923 tomize existing policies with sub-policies are present in manual
924 page update-crypto-policies(8).
925
926 Specifies the signature algorithms that will be accepted for pub‐
927 lic key authentication as a list of comma-separated patterns.
928 Alternately if the specified list begins with a ‘+’ character,
929 then the specified algorithms will be appended to the built-in
930 openssh default set instead of replacing them. If the specified
931 list begins with a ‘-’ character, then the specified algorithms
932 (including wildcards) will be removed from the built-in openssh
933 default set instead of replacing them. If the specified list be‐
934 gins with a ‘^’ character, then the specified algorithms will be
935 placed at the head of the built-in openssh default set.
936
937 The list of available signature algorithms may also be obtained
938 using "ssh -Q PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms".
939
940 PubkeyAuthOptions
941 Sets one or more public key authentication options. The sup‐
942 ported keywords are: none (the default; indicating no additional
943 options are enabled), touch-required and verify-required.
944
945 The touch-required option causes public key authentication using
946 a FIDO authenticator algorithm (i.e. ecdsa-sk or ed25519-sk) to
947 always require the signature to attest that a physically present
948 user explicitly confirmed the authentication (usually by touching
949 the authenticator). By default, sshd(8) requires user presence
950 unless overridden with an authorized_keys option. The
951 touch-required flag disables this override.
952
953 The verify-required option requires a FIDO key signature attest
954 that the user was verified, e.g. via a PIN.
955
956 Neither the touch-required or verify-required options have any
957 effect for other, non-FIDO, public key types.
958
959 PubkeyAuthentication
960 Specifies whether public key authentication is allowed. The de‐
961 fault is yes.
962
963 RekeyLimit
964 Specifies the maximum amount of data that may be transmitted be‐
965 fore the session key is renegotiated, optionally followed by a
966 maximum amount of time that may pass before the session key is
967 renegotiated. The first argument is specified in bytes and may
968 have a suffix of ‘K’, ‘M’, or ‘G’ to indicate Kilobytes,
969 Megabytes, or Gigabytes, respectively. The default is between
970 ‘1G’ and ‘4G’, depending on the cipher. The optional second
971 value is specified in seconds and may use any of the units docu‐
972 mented in the TIME FORMATS section. The default value for
973 RekeyLimit is default none, which means that rekeying is per‐
974 formed after the cipher's default amount of data has been sent or
975 received and no time based rekeying is done.
976
977 RequiredRSASize
978 Specifies the minimum RSA key size (in bits) that sshd(8) will
979 accept. User and host-based authentication keys smaller than
980 this limit will be refused. The default is 1024 bits. Note that
981 this limit may only be raised from the default.
982
983 RevokedKeys
984 Specifies revoked public keys file, or none to not use one. Keys
985 listed in this file will be refused for public key authentica‐
986 tion. Note that if this file is not readable, then public key
987 authentication will be refused for all users. Keys may be speci‐
988 fied as a text file, listing one public key per line, or as an
989 OpenSSH Key Revocation List (KRL) as generated by ssh-keygen(1).
990 For more information on KRLs, see the KEY REVOCATION LISTS sec‐
991 tion in ssh-keygen(1).
992
993 RDomain
994 Specifies an explicit routing domain that is applied after au‐
995 thentication has completed. The user session, as well as any
996 forwarded or listening IP sockets, will be bound to this
997 rdomain(4). If the routing domain is set to %D, then the domain
998 in which the incoming connection was received will be applied.
999
1000 SecurityKeyProvider
1001 Specifies a path to a library that will be used when loading FIDO
1002 authenticator-hosted keys, overriding the default of using the
1003 built-in USB HID support.
1004
1005 SetEnv Specifies one or more environment variables to set in child ses‐
1006 sions started by sshd(8) as “NAME=VALUE”. The environment value
1007 may be quoted (e.g. if it contains whitespace characters). Envi‐
1008 ronment variables set by SetEnv override the default environment
1009 and any variables specified by the user via AcceptEnv or
1010 PermitUserEnvironment.
1011
1012 StreamLocalBindMask
1013 Sets the octal file creation mode mask (umask) used when creating
1014 a Unix-domain socket file for local or remote port forwarding.
1015 This option is only used for port forwarding to a Unix-domain
1016 socket file.
1017
1018 The default value is 0177, which creates a Unix-domain socket
1019 file that is readable and writable only by the owner. Note that
1020 not all operating systems honor the file mode on Unix-domain
1021 socket files.
1022
1023 StreamLocalBindUnlink
1024 Specifies whether to remove an existing Unix-domain socket file
1025 for local or remote port forwarding before creating a new one.
1026 If the socket file already exists and StreamLocalBindUnlink is
1027 not enabled, sshd will be unable to forward the port to the Unix-
1028 domain socket file. This option is only used for port forwarding
1029 to a Unix-domain socket file.
1030
1031 The argument must be yes or no. The default is no.
1032
1033 StrictModes
1034 Specifies whether sshd(8) should check file modes and ownership
1035 of the user's files and home directory before accepting login.
1036 This is normally desirable because novices sometimes accidentally
1037 leave their directory or files world-writable. The default is
1038 yes. Note that this does not apply to ChrootDirectory, whose
1039 permissions and ownership are checked unconditionally.
1040
1041 Subsystem
1042 Configures an external subsystem (e.g. file transfer daemon).
1043 Arguments should be a subsystem name and a command (with optional
1044 arguments) to execute upon subsystem request.
1045
1046 The command sftp-server implements the SFTP file transfer subsys‐
1047 tem.
1048
1049 Alternately the name internal-sftp implements an in-process SFTP
1050 server. This may simplify configurations using ChrootDirectory
1051 to force a different filesystem root on clients.
1052
1053 By default no subsystems are defined.
1054
1055 SyslogFacility
1056 Gives the facility code that is used when logging messages from
1057 sshd(8). The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH, AUTHPRIV,
1058 LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2, LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7.
1059 The default is AUTH.
1060
1061 TCPKeepAlive
1062 Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages
1063 to the other side. If they are sent, death of the connection or
1064 crash of one of the machines will be properly noticed. However,
1065 this means that connections will die if the route is down tempo‐
1066 rarily, and some people find it annoying. On the other hand, if
1067 TCP keepalives are not sent, sessions may hang indefinitely on
1068 the server, leaving "ghost" users and consuming server resources.
1069
1070 The default is yes (to send TCP keepalive messages), and the
1071 server will notice if the network goes down or the client host
1072 crashes. This avoids infinitely hanging sessions.
1073
1074 To disable TCP keepalive messages, the value should be set to no.
1075
1076 TrustedUserCAKeys
1077 Specifies a file containing public keys of certificate authori‐
1078 ties that are trusted to sign user certificates for authentica‐
1079 tion, or none to not use one. Keys are listed one per line;
1080 empty lines and comments starting with ‘#’ are allowed. If a
1081 certificate is presented for authentication and has its signing
1082 CA key listed in this file, then it may be used for authentica‐
1083 tion for any user listed in the certificate's principals list.
1084 Note that certificates that lack a list of principals will not be
1085 permitted for authentication using TrustedUserCAKeys. For more
1086 details on certificates, see the CERTIFICATES section in
1087 ssh-keygen(1).
1088
1089 UseDNS Specifies whether sshd(8) should look up the remote host name,
1090 and to check that the resolved host name for the remote IP ad‐
1091 dress maps back to the very same IP address.
1092
1093 If this option is set to no (the default) then only addresses and
1094 not host names may be used in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys from and
1095 sshd_config Match Host directives.
1096
1097 UsePAM Enables the Pluggable Authentication Module interface. If set to
1098 yes this will enable PAM authentication using
1099 KbdInteractiveAuthentication and PasswordAuthentication in addi‐
1100 tion to PAM account and session module processing for all authen‐
1101 tication types.
1102
1103 Because PAM keyboard-interactive authentication usually serves an
1104 equivalent role to password authentication, you should disable
1105 either PasswordAuthentication or KbdInteractiveAuthentication.
1106
1107 If UsePAM is enabled, you will not be able to run sshd(8) as a
1108 non-root user. The default is no.
1109
1110 PermitPAMUserChange
1111 If set to yes this will enable PAM authentication to change the
1112 name of the user being authenticated. The default is no.
1113
1114 VersionAddendum
1115 Optionally specifies additional text to append to the SSH proto‐
1116 col banner sent by the server upon connection. The default is
1117 none.
1118
1119 X11DisplayOffset
1120 Specifies the first display number available for sshd(8)'s X11
1121 forwarding. This prevents sshd from interfering with real X11
1122 servers. The default is 10.
1123
1124 X11MaxDisplays
1125 Specifies the maximum number of displays available for sshd(8)'s
1126 X11 forwarding. This prevents sshd from exhausting local ports.
1127 The default is 1000.
1128
1129 X11Forwarding
1130 Specifies whether X11 forwarding is permitted. The argument must
1131 be yes or no. The default is no.
1132
1133 When X11 forwarding is enabled, there may be additional exposure
1134 to the server and to client displays if the sshd(8) proxy display
1135 is configured to listen on the wildcard address (see
1136 X11UseLocalhost), though this is not the default. Additionally,
1137 the authentication spoofing and authentication data verification
1138 and substitution occur on the client side. The security risk of
1139 using X11 forwarding is that the client's X11 display server may
1140 be exposed to attack when the SSH client requests forwarding (see
1141 the warnings for ForwardX11 in ssh_config(5)). A system adminis‐
1142 trator may have a stance in which they want to protect clients
1143 that may expose themselves to attack by unwittingly requesting
1144 X11 forwarding, which can warrant a no setting.
1145
1146 Note that disabling X11 forwarding does not prevent users from
1147 forwarding X11 traffic, as users can always install their own
1148 forwarders.
1149
1150 X11UseLocalhost
1151 Specifies whether sshd(8) should bind the X11 forwarding server
1152 to the loopback address or to the wildcard address. By default,
1153 sshd binds the forwarding server to the loopback address and sets
1154 the hostname part of the DISPLAY environment variable to
1155 localhost. This prevents remote hosts from connecting to the
1156 proxy display. However, some older X11 clients may not function
1157 with this configuration. X11UseLocalhost may be set to no to
1158 specify that the forwarding server should be bound to the wild‐
1159 card address. The argument must be yes or no. The default is
1160 yes.
1161
1162 XAuthLocation
1163 Specifies the full pathname of the xauth(1) program, or none to
1164 not use one. The default is /usr/bin/xauth.
1165
1167 sshd(8) command-line arguments and configuration file options that spec‐
1168 ify time may be expressed using a sequence of the form: time[qualifier],
1169 where time is a positive integer value and qualifier is one of the fol‐
1170 lowing:
1171
1172 ⟨none⟩ seconds
1173 s | S seconds
1174 m | M minutes
1175 h | H hours
1176 d | D days
1177 w | W weeks
1178
1179 Each member of the sequence is added together to calculate the total time
1180 value.
1181
1182 Time format examples:
1183
1184 600 600 seconds (10 minutes)
1185 10m 10 minutes
1186 1h30m 1 hour 30 minutes (90 minutes)
1187
1189 Arguments to some keywords can make use of tokens, which are expanded at
1190 runtime:
1191
1192 %% A literal ‘%’.
1193 %D The routing domain in which the incoming connection was re‐
1194 ceived.
1195 %F The fingerprint of the CA key.
1196 %f The fingerprint of the key or certificate.
1197 %h The home directory of the user.
1198 %i The key ID in the certificate.
1199 %K The base64-encoded CA key.
1200 %k The base64-encoded key or certificate for authentication.
1201 %s The serial number of the certificate.
1202 %T The type of the CA key.
1203 %t The key or certificate type.
1204 %U The numeric user ID of the target user.
1205 %u The username.
1206
1207 AuthorizedKeysCommand accepts the tokens %%, %f, %h, %k, %t, %U, and %u.
1208
1209 AuthorizedKeysFile accepts the tokens %%, %h, %U, and %u.
1210
1211 AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand accepts the tokens %%, %F, %f, %h, %i, %K,
1212 %k, %s, %T, %t, %U, and %u.
1213
1214 AuthorizedPrincipalsFile accepts the tokens %%, %h, %U, and %u.
1215
1216 ChrootDirectory accepts the tokens %%, %h, %U, and %u.
1217
1218 RoutingDomain accepts the token %D.
1219
1221 /etc/gsissh/sshd_config
1222 Contains configuration data for sshd(8). This file should be
1223 writable by root only, but it is recommended (though not neces‐
1224 sary) that it be world-readable.
1225
1227 sftp-server(8), sshd(8), crypto-policies(7), update-crypto-policies(8)
1228
1230 OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by
1231 Tatu Ylonen. Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo
1232 de Raadt and Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and cre‐
1233 ated OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol
1234 versions 1.5 and 2.0. Niels Provos and Markus Friedl contributed support
1235 for privilege separation.
1236
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