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Damien Miller8ba0ead2013-12-18 17:46:27 +1100[diff] [blame]1.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keysign.8,v 1.14 2013/12/07 11:58:46 naddy Exp $
Ben Lindstrom1bad2562002-06-06 19:57:33 +0000[diff] [blame]2.\"
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Damien Miller8ba0ead2013-12-18 17:46:27 +1100[diff] [blame]25.Dd $Mdocdate: December 7 2013 $
Ben Lindstrom1bad2562002-06-06 19:57:33 +0000[diff] [blame]26.Dt SSH-KEYSIGN 8
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm ssh-keysign
Damien Miller1faa7132006-03-15 11:55:31 +1100[diff] [blame]30.Nd ssh helper program for host-based authentication
Ben Lindstrom1bad2562002-06-06 19:57:33 +0000[diff] [blame]31.Sh SYNOPSIS
Ben Lindstrom11d470d2002-06-11 15:50:13 +0000[diff] [blame]32.Nm
Ben Lindstrom1bad2562002-06-06 19:57:33 +0000[diff] [blame]33.Sh DESCRIPTION
34.Nm
35is used by
36.Xr ssh 1
Ben Lindstrom11d470d2002-06-11 15:50:13 +0000[diff] [blame]37to access the local host keys and generate the digital signature
Damien Miller1faa7132006-03-15 11:55:31 +1100[diff] [blame]38required during host-based authentication with SSH protocol version 2.
Ben Lindstrom5d35a2f2002-07-04 00:19:40 +0000[diff] [blame]39.Pp
40.Nm
41is disabled by default and can only be enabled in the
Ben Lindstrom2594d9a2002-12-23 02:09:59 +0000[diff] [blame]42global client configuration file
Ben Lindstrom5d35a2f2002-07-04 00:19:40 +0000[diff] [blame]43.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config
44by setting
Ben Lindstromb6df73b2002-11-09 15:52:31 +0000[diff] [blame]45.Cm EnableSSHKeysign
Ben Lindstrom5d35a2f2002-07-04 00:19:40 +0000[diff] [blame]46to
47.Dq yes .
48.Pp
Ben Lindstrom1bad2562002-06-06 19:57:33 +0000[diff] [blame]49.Nm
50is not intended to be invoked by the user, but from
51.Xr ssh 1 .
52See
53.Xr ssh 1
54and
55.Xr sshd 8
Damien Miller1faa7132006-03-15 11:55:31 +1100[diff] [blame]56for more information about host-based authentication.
Ben Lindstrom11d470d2002-06-11 15:50:13 +0000[diff] [blame]57.Sh FILES
Damien Millerafdae612010-08-31 22:31:14 +1000[diff] [blame]58.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
Ben Lindstrom5d35a2f2002-07-04 00:19:40 +0000[diff] [blame]59.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config
60Controls whether
61.Nm
62is enabled.
Damien Millerafdae612010-08-31 22:31:14 +1000[diff] [blame]63.Pp
64.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
Damien Millereb8b60e2010-08-31 22:41:14 +1000[diff] [blame]65.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
Damien Miller8ba0ead2013-12-18 17:46:27 +1100[diff] [blame]66.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
Damien Millerafdae612010-08-31 22:31:14 +1000[diff] [blame]67.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
Ben Lindstrom11d470d2002-06-11 15:50:13 +0000[diff] [blame]68These files contain the private parts of the host keys used to
Damien Miller495dca32003-04-01 21:42:14 +1000[diff] [blame]69generate the digital signature.
70They should be owned by root, readable only by root, and not
Ben Lindstrom11d470d2002-06-11 15:50:13 +0000[diff] [blame]71accessible to others.
72Since they are readable only by root,
73.Nm
Damien Miller1faa7132006-03-15 11:55:31 +1100[diff] [blame]74must be set-uid root if host-based authentication is used.
Damien Millerafdae612010-08-31 22:31:14 +1000[diff] [blame]75.Pp
76.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key-cert.pub
Damien Millereb8b60e2010-08-31 22:41:14 +1000[diff] [blame]77.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key-cert.pub
Damien Miller8ba0ead2013-12-18 17:46:27 +1100[diff] [blame]78.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key-cert.pub
Damien Millerafdae612010-08-31 22:31:14 +1000[diff] [blame]79.It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key-cert.pub
Damien Millerc1583312010-08-05 13:04:50 +1000[diff] [blame]80If these files exist they are assumed to contain public certificate
81information corresponding with the private keys above.
Ben Lindstrom11d470d2002-06-11 15:50:13 +0000[diff] [blame]82.El
Ben Lindstrom1bad2562002-06-06 19:57:33 +0000[diff] [blame]83.Sh SEE ALSO
84.Xr ssh 1 ,
Ben Lindstrom11d470d2002-06-11 15:50:13 +0000[diff] [blame]85.Xr ssh-keygen 1 ,
Ben Lindstrom5d35a2f2002-07-04 00:19:40 +0000[diff] [blame]86.Xr ssh_config 5 ,
Ben Lindstrom1bad2562002-06-06 19:57:33 +0000[diff] [blame]87.Xr sshd 8
Ben Lindstrom1bad2562002-06-06 19:57:33 +0000[diff] [blame]88.Sh HISTORY
89.Nm
90first appeared in
91.Ox 3.2 .
Damien Millerf1ce5052003-06-11 22:04:39 +1000[diff] [blame]92.Sh AUTHORS
Damien Millerbf836e52013-07-18 16:14:13 +1000[diff] [blame]93.An Markus Friedl Aq Mt markus@openbsd.org