| SSHD_CONFIG(5) | File Formats Manual | SSHD_CONFIG(5) |
sshd_config —
/etc/ssh/sshd_config |
-f on the command line). The file contains
keyword-argument pairs, one per line. Lines starting with
‘#’ and empty lines are interpreted as
comments. Arguments may optionally be enclosed in double quotes (") in
order to represent arguments containing spaces.
The possible keywords and their meanings are as follows (note that keywords are case-insensitive and arguments are case-sensitive):
AcceptEnvSendEnv in ssh_config(5) for how
to configure the client. Note that environment passing is only supported
for protocol 2. Variables are specified by name, which may contain the
wildcard characters ‘*’ and
‘?’. Multiple environment variables
may be separated by whitespace or spread across multiple
AcceptEnv directives. Be warned that some
environment variables could be used to bypass restricted user
environments. For this reason, care should be taken in the use of this
directive. The default is not to accept any environment variables.AddressFamilyAllowGroupsDenyUsers,
AllowUsers, DenyGroups,
and finally AllowGroups.
See PATTERNS in ssh_config(5) for more information on patterns.
AllowTcpForwardingAllowUsersDenyUsers, AllowUsers,
DenyGroups, and finally
AllowGroups.
See PATTERNS in ssh_config(5) for more information on patterns.
AuthorizedKeysFileAuthorizedKeysFile may contain
tokens of the form %T which are substituted during connection setup. The
following tokens are defined: %% is replaced by a literal '%', %h is
replaced by the home directory of the user being authenticated, and %u is
replaced by the username of that user. After expansion,
AuthorizedKeysFile is taken to be an absolute path
or one relative to the user's home directory. The default is
“.ssh/authorized_keys”.BannerChallengeResponseAuthenticationCiphers
aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour128,
arcfour256,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,aes128-ctr,
aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr
ClientAliveCountMaxTCPKeepAlive (below). The client alive
messages are sent through the encrypted channel and therefore will not be
spoofable. The TCP keepalive option enabled by
TCPKeepAlive is spoofable. The client alive
mechanism is valuable when the client or server depend on knowing when a
connection has become inactive.
The default value is 3. If
ClientAliveInterval (see below) is set to 15,
and ClientAliveCountMax is left at the default,
unresponsive SSH clients will be disconnected after approximately 45
seconds. This option applies to protocol version 2 only.
ClientAliveIntervalCompressionDenyGroupsDenyUsers,
AllowUsers, DenyGroups,
and finally AllowGroups.
See PATTERNS in ssh_config(5) for more information on patterns.
DenyUsersDenyUsers,
AllowUsers, DenyGroups,
and finally AllowGroups.
See PATTERNS in ssh_config(5) for more information on patterns.
ForceCommandForceCommand, ignoring any command supplied by the
client. The command is invoked by using the user's login shell with the -c
option. This applies to shell, command, or subsystem execution. It is most
useful inside a Match block. The command
originally supplied by the client is available in the
SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND environment variable.GatewayPortsGatewayPorts can be
used to specify that sshd should allow remote port forwardings to bind to
non-loopback addresses, thus allowing other hosts to connect. The argument
may be “no” to force remote port forwardings to be available
to the local host only, “yes” to force remote port
forwardings to bind to the wildcard address, or
“clientspecified” to allow the client to select the address
to which the forwarding is bound. The default is “no”.GSSAPIAuthenticationGSSAPICleanupCredentialsHostbasedAuthenticationRhostsRSAAuthentication and applies to protocol
version 2 only. The default is “no”.HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnlyHostbasedAuthentication. A setting of
“yes” means that sshd(8) uses the name
supplied by the client rather than attempting to resolve the name from the
TCP connection itself. The default is “no”.HostKeyIgnoreRhostsRhostsRSAAuthentication or
HostbasedAuthentication.
/etc/hosts.equiv and /etc/shosts.equiv are still used. The default is “yes”.
IgnoreUserKnownHostsRhostsRSAAuthentication or
HostbasedAuthentication. The default is
“no”.KerberosAuthenticationPasswordAuthentication will be validated through
the Kerberos KDC. To use this option, the server needs a Kerberos servtab
which allows the verification of the KDC's identity. The default is
“no”.KerberosGetAFSTokenKerberosOrLocalPasswdKerberosTicketCleanupKeyRegenerationIntervalListenAddressListenAddress
host|IPv4_addr|IPv6_addrListenAddress
host|IPv4_addr:portListenAddress
[host|IPv6_addr]:portIf port is not specified, sshd will
listen on the address and all prior Port options
specified. The default is to listen on all local addresses. Multiple
ListenAddress options are permitted.
Additionally, any Port options must precede this
option for non-port qualified addresses.
LoginGraceTimeLogLevelMACsMatchMatch line are satisfied, the keywords on the
following lines override those set in the global section of the config
file, until either another Match line or the end
of the file. The arguments to Match are one or
more criteria-pattern pairs. The available criteria are
User, Group,
Host, and Address. Only a
subset of keywords may be used on the lines following a
Match keyword. Available keywords are
AllowTcpForwarding,
Banner, ForceCommand,
GatewayPorts,
GSSApiAuthentication,
KbdInteractiveAuthentication,
KerberosAuthentication,
PasswordAuthentication,
PermitOpen,
RhostsRSAAuthentication,
RSAAuthentication,
X11DisplayOffset,
X11Forwarding, and
X11UseLocalHost.MaxAuthTriesMaxStartupsLoginGraceTime
expires for a connection. The default is 10.
Alternatively, random early drop can be enabled by specifying the three colon separated values “start:rate:full” (e.g. "10:30:60"). sshd(8) will refuse connection attempts with a probability of “rate/100” (30%) if there are currently “start” (10) unauthenticated connections. The probability increases linearly and all connection attempts are refused if the number of unauthenticated connections reaches “full” (60).
PasswordAuthenticationPermitEmptyPasswordsPermitOpenPermitOpen
host:portPermitOpen
IPv4_addr:portPermitOpen
[IPv6_addr]:portMultiple forwards may be specified by separating them with whitespace. An argument of “any” can be used to remove all restrictions and permit any forwarding requests. By default all port forwarding requests are permitted.
PermitRootLoginIf this option is set to “without-password”, password authentication is disabled for root.
If this option is set to “forced-commands-only”, root login with public key authentication will be allowed, but only if the command option has been specified (which may be useful for taking remote backups even if root login is normally not allowed). All other authentication methods are disabled for root.
If this option is set to “no”, root is not allowed to log in.
PermitTunnelPermitUserEnvironmentenvironment= options in
~/.ssh/authorized_keys are processed by
sshd(8). The default is “no”. Enabling
environment processing may enable users to bypass access restrictions in
some configurations using mechanisms such as
LD_PRELOAD.PidFilePortListenAddress.PrintLastLogPrintMotdProtocolPubkeyAuthenticationRhostsRSAAuthenticationRSAAuthenticationServerKeyBitsStrictModesSubsystemSyslogFacilityTCPKeepAliveThe default is “yes” (to send TCP keepalive messages), and the server will notice if the network goes down or the client host crashes. This avoids infinitely hanging sessions.
To disable TCP keepalive messages, the value should be set to “no”.
UseDNSUseLoginX11Forwarding
will be disabled because login(1) does not know how to
handle xauth(1) cookies. If
UsePrivilegeSeparation is specified, it will be
disabled after authentication.UsePAMChallengeResponseAuthentication and
PasswordAuthentication in addition to PAM account
and session module processing for all authentication types.
Because PAM challenge-response authentication usually serves
an equivalent role to password authentication, you should disable either
PasswordAuthentication or
ChallengeResponseAuthentication.
If UsePAM is enabled, you will not be
able to run sshd(8) as a non-root user. The default is
“no”.
UsePrivilegeSeparationX11DisplayOffsetX11ForwardingWhen X11 forwarding is enabled, there may be additional
exposure to the server and to client displays if the
sshd(8) proxy display is configured to listen on the
wildcard address (see X11UseLocalhost below),
though this is not the default. Additionally, the authentication
spoofing and authentication data verification and substitution occur on
the client side. The security risk of using X11 forwarding is that the
client's X11 display server may be exposed to attack when the SSH client
requests forwarding (see the warnings for
ForwardX11 in ssh_config(5)).
A system administrator may have a stance in which they want to protect
clients that may expose themselves to attack by unwittingly requesting
X11 forwarding, which can warrant a “no” setting.
Note that disabling X11 forwarding does not prevent users from
forwarding X11 traffic, as users can always install their own
forwarders. X11 forwarding is automatically disabled if
UseLogin is enabled.
X11UseLocalhostDISPLAY environment variable
to “localhost”. This prevents remote hosts from connecting
to the proxy display. However, some older X11 clients may not function
with this configuration. X11UseLocalhost may be
set to “no” to specify that the forwarding server should be
bound to the wildcard address. The argument must be “yes” or
“no”. The default is “yes”.XAuthLocationEach member of the sequence is added together to calculate the total time value.
Time format examples:
| September 25, 1999 | BSD |