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37 .\" $OpenBSD: ssh_config.5,v 1.128 2010/02/10 23:20:38 markus Exp $
38 .Dd $Mdocdate: February 10 2010 $
43 .Nd OpenSSH SSH client configuration files
46 .Nm /etc/ssh/ssh_config
49 obtains configuration data from the following sources in
52 .Bl -enum -offset indent -compact
56 user's configuration file
59 system-wide configuration file
60 .Pq Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config
63 For each parameter, the first obtained value
65 The configuration files contain sections separated by
67 specifications, and that section is only applied for hosts that
68 match one of the patterns given in the specification.
69 The matched host name is the one given on the command line.
71 Since the first obtained value for each parameter is used, more
72 host-specific declarations should be given near the beginning of the
73 file, and general defaults at the end.
75 The configuration file has the following format:
77 Empty lines and lines starting with
80 Otherwise a line is of the format
81 .Dq keyword arguments .
82 Configuration options may be separated by whitespace or
83 optional whitespace and exactly one
85 the latter format is useful to avoid the need to quote whitespace
86 when specifying configuration options using the
93 Arguments may optionally be enclosed in double quotes
95 in order to represent arguments containing spaces.
98 keywords and their meanings are as follows (note that
99 keywords are case-insensitive and arguments are case-sensitive):
102 Restricts the following declarations (up to the next
104 keyword) to be only for those hosts that match one of the patterns
105 given after the keyword.
106 If more than one pattern is provided, they should be separated by whitespace.
109 as a pattern can be used to provide global
110 defaults for all hosts.
113 argument given on the command line (i.e. the name is not converted to
114 a canonicalized host name before matching).
118 for more information on patterns.
120 Specifies which address family to use when connecting.
130 passphrase/password querying will be disabled.
131 This option is useful in scripts and other batch jobs where no user
132 is present to supply the password.
140 Use the specified address on the local machine as the source address of
142 Only useful on systems with more than one address.
143 Note that this option does not work if
144 .Cm UsePrivilegedPort
147 .It Cm ChallengeResponseAuthentication
148 Specifies whether to use challenge-response authentication.
149 The argument to this keyword must be
156 If this flag is set to
159 will additionally check the host IP address in the
162 This allows ssh to detect if a host key changed due to DNS spoofing.
163 If the option is set to
165 the check will not be executed.
169 Specifies the cipher to use for encrypting the session
170 in protocol version 1.
178 is only supported in the
180 client for interoperability with legacy protocol 1 implementations
181 that do not support the
184 Its use is strongly discouraged due to cryptographic weaknesses.
188 Specifies the ciphers allowed for protocol version 2
189 in order of preference.
190 Multiple ciphers must be comma-separated.
191 The supported ciphers are
206 .Bd -literal -offset 3n
207 aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,arcfour256,arcfour128,
208 aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,aes192-cbc,
211 .It Cm ClearAllForwardings
212 Specifies that all local, remote, and dynamic port forwardings
213 specified in the configuration files or on the command line be
215 This option is primarily useful when used from the
217 command line to clear port forwardings set in
218 configuration files, and is automatically set by
229 Specifies whether to use compression.
236 .It Cm CompressionLevel
237 Specifies the compression level to use if compression is enabled.
238 The argument must be an integer from 1 (fast) to 9 (slow, best).
239 The default level is 6, which is good for most applications.
240 The meaning of the values is the same as in
242 Note that this option applies to protocol version 1 only.
243 .It Cm ConnectionAttempts
244 Specifies the number of tries (one per second) to make before exiting.
245 The argument must be an integer.
246 This may be useful in scripts if the connection sometimes fails.
248 .It Cm ConnectTimeout
249 Specifies the timeout (in seconds) used when connecting to the
250 SSH server, instead of using the default system TCP timeout.
251 This value is used only when the target is down or really unreachable,
252 not when it refuses the connection.
254 Enables the sharing of multiple sessions over a single network connection.
258 will listen for connections on a control socket specified using the
261 Additional sessions can connect to this socket using the same
268 These sessions will try to reuse the master instance's network connection
269 rather than initiating new ones, but will fall back to connecting normally
270 if the control socket does not exist, or is not listening.
275 to listen for control connections, but require confirmation using the
277 program before they are accepted (see
283 ssh will continue without connecting to a master instance.
287 forwarding is supported over these multiplexed connections, however the
288 display and agent forwarded will be the one belonging to the master
289 connection i.e. it is not possible to forward multiple displays or agents.
291 Two additional options allow for opportunistic multiplexing: try to use a
292 master connection but fall back to creating a new one if one does not already
298 The latter requires confirmation like the
302 Specify the path to the control socket used for connection sharing as described
305 section above or the string
307 to disable connection sharing.
310 will be substituted by the local host name,
312 will be substituted by the target host name,
316 by the remote login username.
317 It is recommended that any
319 used for opportunistic connection sharing include
320 at least %h, %p, and %r.
321 This ensures that shared connections are uniquely identified.
322 .It Cm DynamicForward
323 Specifies that a TCP port on the local machine be forwarded
324 over the secure channel, and the application
325 protocol is then used to determine where to connect to from the
330 .Oo Ar bind_address : Oc Ar port .
332 IPv6 addresses can be specified by enclosing addresses in square brackets or
333 by using an alternative syntax:
334 .Oo Ar bind_address Ns / Oc Ns Ar port .
335 By default, the local port is bound in accordance with the
340 may be used to bind the connection to a specific address.
345 indicates that the listening port be bound for local use only, while an
348 indicates that the port should be available from all interfaces.
350 Currently the SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 protocols are supported, and
352 will act as a SOCKS server.
353 Multiple forwardings may be specified, and
354 additional forwardings can be given on the command line.
355 Only the superuser can forward privileged ports.
356 .It Cm EnableSSHKeysign
357 Setting this option to
359 in the global client configuration file
360 .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config
361 enables the use of the helper program
364 .Cm HostbasedAuthentication .
371 This option should be placed in the non-hostspecific section.
374 for more information.
376 Sets the escape character (default:
378 The escape character can also
379 be set on the command line.
380 The argument should be a single character,
382 followed by a letter, or
384 to disable the escape
385 character entirely (making the connection transparent for binary
387 .It Cm ExitOnForwardFailure
390 should terminate the connection if it cannot set up all requested
391 dynamic, tunnel, local, and remote port forwardings.
399 Specifies whether the connection to the authentication agent (if any)
400 will be forwarded to the remote machine.
408 Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution.
409 Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host
410 (for the agent's Unix-domain socket)
411 can access the local agent through the forwarded connection.
412 An attacker cannot obtain key material from the agent,
413 however they can perform operations on the keys that enable them to
414 authenticate using the identities loaded into the agent.
416 Specifies whether X11 connections will be automatically redirected
417 over the secure channel and
427 X11 forwarding should be enabled with caution.
428 Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host
429 (for the user's X11 authorization database)
430 can access the local X11 display through the forwarded connection.
431 An attacker may then be able to perform activities such as keystroke monitoring
433 .Cm ForwardX11Trusted
434 option is also enabled.
435 .It Cm ForwardX11Trusted
436 If this option is set to
438 remote X11 clients will have full access to the original X11 display.
440 If this option is set to
442 remote X11 clients will be considered untrusted and prevented
443 from stealing or tampering with data belonging to trusted X11
447 token used for the session will be set to expire after 20 minutes.
448 Remote clients will be refused access after this time.
453 See the X11 SECURITY extension specification for full details on
454 the restrictions imposed on untrusted clients.
456 Specifies whether remote hosts are allowed to connect to local
460 binds local port forwardings to the loopback address.
461 This prevents other remote hosts from connecting to forwarded ports.
463 can be used to specify that ssh
464 should bind local port forwardings to the wildcard address,
465 thus allowing remote hosts to connect to forwarded ports.
472 .It Cm GlobalKnownHostsFile
473 Specifies a file to use for the global
474 host key database instead of
475 .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts .
476 .It Cm GSSAPIAuthentication
477 Specifies whether user authentication based on GSSAPI is allowed.
480 Note that this option applies to protocol version 2 only.
481 .It Cm GSSAPIDelegateCredentials
482 Forward (delegate) credentials to the server.
485 Note that this option applies to protocol version 2 only.
486 .It Cm HashKnownHosts
489 should hash host names and addresses when they are added to
490 .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts .
491 These hashed names may be used normally by
495 but they do not reveal identifying information should the file's contents
499 Note that existing names and addresses in known hosts files
500 will not be converted automatically,
501 but may be manually hashed using
503 .It Cm HostbasedAuthentication
504 Specifies whether to try rhosts based authentication with public key
512 This option applies to protocol version 2 only and
514 .Cm RhostsRSAAuthentication .
515 .It Cm HostKeyAlgorithms
516 Specifies the protocol version 2 host key algorithms
517 that the client wants to use in order of preference.
518 The default for this option is:
519 .Dq ssh-rsa,ssh-dss .
521 Specifies an alias that should be used instead of the
522 real host name when looking up or saving the host key
523 in the host key database files.
524 This option is useful for tunneling SSH connections
525 or for multiple servers running on a single host.
527 Specifies the real host name to log into.
528 This can be used to specify nicknames or abbreviations for hosts.
529 The default is the name given on the command line.
530 Numeric IP addresses are also permitted (both on the command line and in
533 .It Cm IdentitiesOnly
536 should only use the authentication identity files configured in the
541 offers more identities.
542 The argument to this keyword must be
546 This option is intended for situations where ssh-agent
547 offers many different identities.
551 Specifies a file from which the user's RSA or DSA authentication identity
555 for protocol version 1, and
559 for protocol version 2.
560 Additionally, any identities represented by the authentication agent
561 will be used for authentication.
563 The file name may use the tilde
564 syntax to refer to a user's home directory or one of the following
567 (local user's home directory),
573 (remote host name) or
577 It is possible to have
578 multiple identity files specified in configuration files; all these
579 identities will be tried in sequence.
580 .It Cm KbdInteractiveAuthentication
581 Specifies whether to use keyboard-interactive authentication.
582 The argument to this keyword must be
588 .It Cm KbdInteractiveDevices
589 Specifies the list of methods to use in keyboard-interactive authentication.
590 Multiple method names must be comma-separated.
591 The default is to use the server specified list.
592 The methods available vary depending on what the server supports.
593 For an OpenSSH server,
594 it may be zero or more of:
600 Specifies a command to execute on the local machine after successfully
601 connecting to the server.
602 The command string extends to the end of the line, and is executed with
604 The following escape character substitutions will be performed:
606 (local user's home directory),
612 (host name as provided on the command line),
616 (remote user name) or
620 The command is run synchronously and does not have access to the
624 It should not be used for interactive commands.
626 This directive is ignored unless
627 .Cm PermitLocalCommand
630 Specifies that a TCP port on the local machine be forwarded over
631 the secure channel to the specified host and port from the remote machine.
632 The first argument must be
634 .Oo Ar bind_address : Oc Ar port
636 and the second argument must be
637 .Ar host : Ns Ar hostport .
638 IPv6 addresses can be specified by enclosing addresses in square brackets or
639 by using an alternative syntax:
640 .Oo Ar bind_address Ns / Oc Ns Ar port
642 .Ar host Ns / Ns Ar hostport .
643 Multiple forwardings may be specified, and additional forwardings can be
644 given on the command line.
645 Only the superuser can forward privileged ports.
646 By default, the local port is bound in accordance with the
651 may be used to bind the connection to a specific address.
656 indicates that the listening port be bound for local use only, while an
659 indicates that the port should be available from all interfaces.
661 Gives the verbosity level that is used when logging messages from
663 The possible values are:
664 QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1, DEBUG2, and DEBUG3.
666 DEBUG and DEBUG1 are equivalent.
667 DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of verbose output.
669 Specifies the MAC (message authentication code) algorithms
670 in order of preference.
671 The MAC algorithm is used in protocol version 2
672 for data integrity protection.
673 Multiple algorithms must be comma-separated.
675 .Bd -literal -offset indent
676 hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,umac-64@openssh.com,
677 hmac-ripemd160,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96
679 .It Cm NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost
680 This option can be used if the home directory is shared across machines.
681 In this case localhost will refer to a different machine on each of
682 the machines and the user will get many warnings about changed host keys.
683 However, this option disables host authentication for localhost.
684 The argument to this keyword must be
688 The default is to check the host key for localhost.
689 .It Cm NumberOfPasswordPrompts
690 Specifies the number of password prompts before giving up.
691 The argument to this keyword must be an integer.
693 .It Cm PasswordAuthentication
694 Specifies whether to use password authentication.
695 The argument to this keyword must be
701 .It Cm PermitLocalCommand
702 Allow local command execution via the
705 .Ic !\& Ns Ar command
714 .It Cm PKCS11Provider
715 Specifies which PKCS#11 provider to use.
716 The argument to this keyword is the PKCS#11 shared libary
718 should use to communicate with a PKCS#11 token providing the user's
721 Specifies the port number to connect on the remote host.
723 .It Cm PreferredAuthentications
724 Specifies the order in which the client should try protocol 2
725 authentication methods.
726 This allows a client to prefer one method (e.g.\&
727 .Cm keyboard-interactive )
728 over another method (e.g.\&
730 The default for this option is:
731 .Do gssapi-with-mic ,
734 keyboard-interactive,
738 Specifies the protocol versions
740 should support in order of preference.
741 The possible values are
745 Multiple versions must be comma-separated.
746 When this option is set to
749 will try version 2 and fall back to version 1
750 if version 2 is not available.
754 Specifies the command to use to connect to the server.
756 string extends to the end of the line, and is executed with
758 In the command string,
760 will be substituted by the host name to
764 The command can be basically anything,
765 and should read from its standard input and write to its standard output.
766 It should eventually connect an
768 server running on some machine, or execute
771 Host key management will be done using the
772 HostName of the host being connected (defaulting to the name typed by
774 Setting the command to
776 disables this option entirely.
779 is not available for connects with a proxy command.
781 This directive is useful in conjunction with
783 and its proxy support.
784 For example, the following directive would connect via an HTTP proxy at
786 .Bd -literal -offset 3n
787 ProxyCommand /usr/bin/nc -X connect -x 192.0.2.0:8080 %h %p
789 .It Cm PubkeyAuthentication
790 Specifies whether to try public key authentication.
791 The argument to this keyword must be
797 This option applies to protocol version 2 only.
799 Specifies the maximum amount of data that may be transmitted before the
800 session key is renegotiated.
801 The argument is the number of bytes, with an optional suffix of
806 to indicate Kilobytes, Megabytes, or Gigabytes, respectively.
807 The default is between
811 depending on the cipher.
812 This option applies to protocol version 2 only.
814 Specifies that a TCP port on the remote machine be forwarded over
815 the secure channel to the specified host and port from the local machine.
816 The first argument must be
818 .Oo Ar bind_address : Oc Ar port
820 and the second argument must be
821 .Ar host : Ns Ar hostport .
822 IPv6 addresses can be specified by enclosing addresses in square brackets
823 or by using an alternative syntax:
824 .Oo Ar bind_address Ns / Oc Ns Ar port
826 .Ar host Ns / Ns Ar hostport .
827 Multiple forwardings may be specified, and additional
828 forwardings can be given on the command line.
829 Privileged ports can be forwarded only when
830 logging in as root on the remote machine.
836 the listen port will be dynamically allocated on the server and reported
837 to the client at run time.
841 is not specified, the default is to only bind to loopback addresses.
846 or an empty string, then the forwarding is requested to listen on all
850 will only succeed if the server's
852 option is enabled (see
853 .Xr sshd_config 5 ) .
854 .It Cm RhostsRSAAuthentication
855 Specifies whether to try rhosts based authentication with RSA host
863 This option applies to protocol version 1 only and requires
866 .It Cm RSAAuthentication
867 Specifies whether to try RSA authentication.
868 The argument to this keyword must be
872 RSA authentication will only be
873 attempted if the identity file exists, or an authentication agent is
877 Note that this option applies to protocol version 1 only.
879 Specifies what variables from the local
881 should be sent to the server.
882 Note that environment passing is only supported for protocol 2.
883 The server must also support it, and the server must be configured to
884 accept these environment variables.
889 for how to configure the server.
890 Variables are specified by name, which may contain wildcard characters.
891 Multiple environment variables may be separated by whitespace or spread
895 The default is not to send any environment variables.
899 for more information on patterns.
900 .It Cm ServerAliveCountMax
901 Sets the number of server alive messages (see below) which may be
904 receiving any messages back from the server.
905 If this threshold is reached while server alive messages are being sent,
906 ssh will disconnect from the server, terminating the session.
907 It is important to note that the use of server alive messages is very
911 The server alive messages are sent through the encrypted channel
912 and therefore will not be spoofable.
913 The TCP keepalive option enabled by
916 The server alive mechanism is valuable when the client or
917 server depend on knowing when a connection has become inactive.
919 The default value is 3.
921 .Cm ServerAliveInterval
922 (see below) is set to 15 and
923 .Cm ServerAliveCountMax
924 is left at the default, if the server becomes unresponsive,
925 ssh will disconnect after approximately 45 seconds.
926 This option applies to protocol version 2 only.
927 .It Cm ServerAliveInterval
928 Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has been received
931 will send a message through the encrypted
932 channel to request a response from the server.
934 is 0, indicating that these messages will not be sent to the server.
935 This option applies to protocol version 2 only.
936 .It Cm StrictHostKeyChecking
937 If this flag is set to
940 will never automatically add host keys to the
941 .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts
942 file, and refuses to connect to hosts whose host key has changed.
943 This provides maximum protection against trojan horse attacks,
944 though it can be annoying when the
945 .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
946 file is poorly maintained or when connections to new hosts are
948 This option forces the user to manually
950 If this flag is set to
952 ssh will automatically add new host keys to the
953 user known hosts files.
954 If this flag is set to
957 will be added to the user known host files only after the user
958 has confirmed that is what they really want to do, and
959 ssh will refuse to connect to hosts whose host key has changed.
961 known hosts will be verified automatically in all cases.
970 Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages to the
972 If they are sent, death of the connection or crash of one
973 of the machines will be properly noticed.
974 However, this means that
975 connections will die if the route is down temporarily, and some people
980 (to send TCP keepalive messages), and the client will notice
981 if the network goes down or the remote host dies.
982 This is important in scripts, and many users want it too.
984 To disable TCP keepalive messages, the value should be set to
989 device forwarding between the client and the server.
1000 requests the default tunnel mode, which is
1001 .Dq point-to-point .
1007 devices to open on the client
1012 The argument must be
1014 .Ar local_tun Op : Ar remote_tun .
1016 The devices may be specified by numerical ID or the keyword
1018 which uses the next available tunnel device.
1021 is not specified, it defaults to
1025 .It Cm UsePrivilegedPort
1026 Specifies whether to use a privileged port for outgoing connections.
1027 The argument must be
1036 must be setuid root.
1037 Note that this option must be set to
1040 .Cm RhostsRSAAuthentication
1043 Specifies the user to log in as.
1044 This can be useful when a different user name is used on different machines.
1045 This saves the trouble of
1046 having to remember to give the user name on the command line.
1047 .It Cm UserKnownHostsFile
1048 Specifies a file to use for the user
1049 host key database instead of
1050 .Pa ~/.ssh/known_hosts .
1051 .It Cm VerifyHostKeyDNS
1052 Specifies whether to verify the remote key using DNS and SSHFP resource
1054 If this option is set to
1056 the client will implicitly trust keys that match a secure fingerprint
1058 Insecure fingerprints will be handled as if this option was set to
1060 If this option is set to
1062 information on fingerprint match will be displayed, but the user will still
1063 need to confirm new host keys according to the
1064 .Cm StrictHostKeyChecking
1066 The argument must be
1073 Note that this option applies to protocol version 2 only.
1076 .Sx VERIFYING HOST KEYS
1079 .It Cm VisualHostKey
1080 If this flag is set to
1082 an ASCII art representation of the remote host key fingerprint is
1083 printed in addition to the hex fingerprint string at login and
1084 for unknown host keys.
1085 If this flag is set to
1087 no fingerprint strings are printed at login and
1088 only the hex fingerprint string will be printed for unknown host keys.
1091 .It Cm XAuthLocation
1092 Specifies the full pathname of the
1096 .Pa /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth .
1101 consists of zero or more non-whitespace characters,
1103 (a wildcard that matches zero or more characters),
1106 (a wildcard that matches exactly one character).
1107 For example, to specify a set of declarations for any host in the
1110 the following pattern could be used:
1114 The following pattern
1115 would match any host in the 192.168.0.[0-9] network range:
1117 .Dl Host 192.168.0.?
1121 is a comma-separated list of patterns.
1122 Patterns within pattern-lists may be negated
1123 by preceding them with an exclamation mark
1126 to allow a key to be used from anywhere within an organisation
1130 the following entry (in authorized_keys) could be used:
1132 .Dl from=\&"!*.dialup.example.com,*.example.com\&"
1135 .It Pa ~/.ssh/config
1136 This is the per-user configuration file.
1137 The format of this file is described above.
1138 This file is used by the SSH client.
1139 Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions:
1140 read/write for the user, and not accessible by others.
1141 .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config
1142 Systemwide configuration file.
1143 This file provides defaults for those
1144 values that are not specified in the user's configuration file, and
1145 for those users who do not have a configuration file.
1146 This file must be world-readable.
1151 OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free
1152 ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.
1153 Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
1154 Theo de Raadt and Dug Song
1155 removed many bugs, re-added newer features and
1157 Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
1158 protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.