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Damien Millereb8b60e2010-08-31 22:41:14 +10001.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keyscan.1,v 1.29 2010/08/31 11:54:45 djm Exp $
Ben Lindstromb22c2b82001-03-05 06:50:47 +00002.\"
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Damien Millereb8b60e2010-08-31 22:41:14 +10009.Dd $Mdocdate: August 31 2010 $
Ben Lindstromb22c2b82001-03-05 06:50:47 +000010.Dt SSH-KEYSCAN 1
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +000011.Os
12.Sh NAME
13.Nm ssh-keyscan
14.Nd gather ssh public keys
15.Sh SYNOPSIS
16.Nm ssh-keyscan
Damien Miller495dca32003-04-01 21:42:14 +100017.Bk -words
Damien Miller9a2fdbd2005-03-02 12:04:01 +110018.Op Fl 46Hv
19.Op Fl f Ar file
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +000020.Op Fl p Ar port
21.Op Fl T Ar timeout
22.Op Fl t Ar type
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +000023.Op Ar host | addrlist namelist
Damien Millerc1719f72008-11-03 19:27:07 +110024.Ar ...
Damien Miller495dca32003-04-01 21:42:14 +100025.Ek
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +000026.Sh DESCRIPTION
27.Nm
28is a utility for gathering the public ssh host keys of a number of
Damien Miller495dca32003-04-01 21:42:14 +100029hosts.
30It was designed to aid in building and verifying
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +000031.Pa ssh_known_hosts
32files.
33.Nm
34provides a minimal interface suitable for use by shell and perl
35scripts.
36.Pp
37.Nm
38uses non-blocking socket I/O to contact as many hosts as possible in
Damien Miller495dca32003-04-01 21:42:14 +100039parallel, so it is very efficient.
40The keys from a domain of 1,000
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +000041hosts can be collected in tens of seconds, even when some of those
Damien Miller495dca32003-04-01 21:42:14 +100042hosts are down or do not run ssh.
43For scanning, one does not need
Ben Lindstrom594e2032001-09-12 18:35:30 +000044login access to the machines that are being scanned, nor does the
45scanning process involve any encryption.
Ben Lindstrom0b5afb92001-08-06 22:01:29 +000046.Pp
47The options are as follows:
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +000048.Bl -tag -width Ds
Damien Miller9a2fdbd2005-03-02 12:04:01 +110049.It Fl 4
50Forces
51.Nm
52to use IPv4 addresses only.
53.It Fl 6
54Forces
55.Nm
56to use IPv6 addresses only.
57.It Fl f Ar file
58Read hosts or
59.Pa addrlist namelist
60pairs from this file, one per line.
61If
62.Pa -
63is supplied instead of a filename,
64.Nm
65will read hosts or
66.Pa addrlist namelist
67pairs from the standard input.
Damien Millerdb7b8172005-03-01 21:48:03 +110068.It Fl H
69Hash all hostnames and addresses in the output.
70Hashed names may be used normally by
71.Nm ssh
72and
73.Nm sshd ,
74but they do not reveal identifying information should the file's contents
75be disclosed.
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +000076.It Fl p Ar port
77Port to connect to on the remote host.
Ben Lindstrom8d066fb2001-09-12 17:06:13 +000078.It Fl T Ar timeout
Damien Miller495dca32003-04-01 21:42:14 +100079Set the timeout for connection attempts.
80If
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +000081.Pa timeout
82seconds have elapsed since a connection was initiated to a host or since the
83last time anything was read from that host, then the connection is
Damien Miller495dca32003-04-01 21:42:14 +100084closed and the host in question considered unavailable.
85Default is 5 seconds.
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +000086.It Fl t Ar type
Ben Lindstrom8d066fb2001-09-12 17:06:13 +000087Specifies the type of the key to fetch from the scanned hosts.
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +000088The possible values are
89.Dq rsa1
90for protocol version 1 and
Damien Millereb8b60e2010-08-31 22:41:14 +100091.Dq dsa ,
92.Dq ecdsa
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +000093or
Damien Millereb8b60e2010-08-31 22:41:14 +100094.Dq rsa
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +000095for protocol version 2.
96Multiple values may be specified by separating them with commas.
97The default is
Damien Millerbacb7fb2008-05-19 14:56:33 +100098.Dq rsa .
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +000099.It Fl v
100Verbose mode.
101Causes
102.Nm
103to print debugging messages about its progress.
Ben Lindstromd26dcf32001-01-06 15:18:16 +0000104.El
Ben Lindstrom0b5afb92001-08-06 22:01:29 +0000105.Sh SECURITY
Darren Tuckerffe88e12006-10-18 07:53:06 +1000106If an ssh_known_hosts file is constructed using
Ben Lindstrom0b5afb92001-08-06 22:01:29 +0000107.Nm
Ben Lindstrom594e2032001-09-12 18:35:30 +0000108without verifying the keys, users will be vulnerable to
Darren Tucker3ca45082004-07-17 16:13:15 +1000109.Em man in the middle
Ben Lindstrom0b5afb92001-08-06 22:01:29 +0000110attacks.
Ben Lindstrom594e2032001-09-12 18:35:30 +0000111On the other hand, if the security model allows such a risk,
Ben Lindstrom0b5afb92001-08-06 22:01:29 +0000112.Nm
Ben Lindstrom594e2032001-09-12 18:35:30 +0000113can help in the detection of tampered keyfiles or man in the middle
114attacks which have begun after the ssh_known_hosts file was created.
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +0000115.Sh FILES
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +0000116.Pa Input format:
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +0000117.Bd -literal
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +00001181.2.3.4,1.2.4.4 name.my.domain,name,n.my.domain,n,1.2.3.4,1.2.4.4
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +0000119.Ed
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +0000120.Pp
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +0000121.Pa Output format for rsa1 keys:
122.Bd -literal
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +0000123host-or-namelist bits exponent modulus
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +0000124.Ed
125.Pp
Damien Millereb8b60e2010-08-31 22:41:14 +1000126.Pa Output format for rsa, dsa and ecdsa keys:
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +0000127.Bd -literal
128host-or-namelist keytype base64-encoded-key
129.Ed
130.Pp
131Where
132.Pa keytype
133is either
Damien Millereb8b60e2010-08-31 22:41:14 +1000134.Dq ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 ,
135.Dq ecdsa-sha2-nistp384 ,
136.Dq ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 ,
137.Dq ssh-dss
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +0000138or
Damien Millereb8b60e2010-08-31 22:41:14 +1000139.Dq ssh-rsa .
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +0000140.Pp
Damien Miller05eda432002-02-10 18:32:28 +1100141.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
Damien Millerf1ce5052003-06-11 22:04:39 +1000142.Sh EXAMPLES
143Print the
Damien Millerb2c17d42009-01-28 16:18:03 +1100144.Pa rsa
Damien Millerf1ce5052003-06-11 22:04:39 +1000145host key for machine
146.Pa hostname :
147.Bd -literal
148$ ssh-keyscan hostname
149.Ed
150.Pp
151Find all hosts from the file
152.Pa ssh_hosts
153which have new or different keys from those in the sorted file
154.Pa ssh_known_hosts :
155.Bd -literal
Damien Millereb8b60e2010-08-31 22:41:14 +1000156$ ssh-keyscan -t rsa,dsa,ecdsa -f ssh_hosts | \e
Damien Millerf1ce5052003-06-11 22:04:39 +1000157 sort -u - ssh_known_hosts | diff ssh_known_hosts -
158.Ed
159.Sh SEE ALSO
160.Xr ssh 1 ,
161.Xr sshd 8
162.Sh AUTHORS
Darren Tucker28e8e592005-10-03 18:20:28 +1000163.An -nosplit
Damien Millerf1ce5052003-06-11 22:04:39 +1000164.An David Mazieres Aq dm@lcs.mit.edu
165wrote the initial version, and
166.An Wayne Davison Aq wayned@users.sourceforge.net
167added support for protocol version 2.
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +0000168.Sh BUGS
169It generates "Connection closed by remote host" messages on the consoles
Ben Lindstrom325e70c2001-08-06 22:41:30 +0000170of all the machines it scans if the server is older than version 2.9.
Ben Lindstromb6434ae2000-12-05 01:15:09 +0000171This is because it opens a connection to the ssh port, reads the public
172key, and drops the connection as soon as it gets the key.