SSH-KEYSIGN(8)              System Manager's Manual             SSH-KEYSIGN(8)

NAME
     ssh-keysign – ssh helper program for hostbased authentication

SYNOPSIS
     ssh-keysign

DESCRIPTION
     ssh-keysign is used by ssh(1) to access the local host keys during
     hostbased authentication with SSH protocol version 2.  Since the host
     keys are readable only by root ssh-keysign must be setuid root.
     ssh-keysign is not intended to be invoked by the user, but from ssh(1).
     See ssh(1) and sshd(8) for more information about hostbased
     authentication.

SEE ALSO
     ssh(1), sshd(8)

AUTHORS
     Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>

HISTORY
     ssh-keysign first appeared in OpenBSD 3.2.

BSD                              May 24, 2002                              BSD