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7 OpenSSH is a complete implementation of the SSH protocol (version 2) for secure remote login, command execution and file transfer. It includes a client ``ssh`` and server ``sshd``, file transfer utilities ``scp`` and ``sftp`` as well as tools for key generation (``ssh-keygen``), run-time key storage (``ssh-agent``) and a number of supporting programs.
9 This is a port of OpenBSD's [OpenSSH](https://openssh.com) to most Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, OS X and Cygwin. Portable OpenSSH polyfills OpenBSD APIs that are not available elsewhere, adds sshd sandboxing for more operating systems and includes support for OS-native authentication and auditing (e.g. using PAM).
13 The official documentation for OpenSSH are the man pages for each tool:
15 * [ssh(1)](https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1)
16 * [sshd(8)](https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8)
17 * [ssh-keygen(1)](https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1)
18 * [ssh-agent(1)](https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent.1)
19 * [scp(1)](https://man.openbsd.org/scp.1)
20 * [sftp(1)](https://man.openbsd.org/sftp.1)
21 * [ssh-keyscan(8)](https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keyscan.8)
22 * [sftp-server(8)](https://man.openbsd.org/sftp-server.8)
26 Stable release tarballs are available from a number of [download mirrors](https://www.openssh.com/portable.html#downloads). We recommend the use of a stable release for most users. Please read the [release notes](https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html) for details of recent changes and potential incompatibilities.
28 ## Building Portable OpenSSH
32 Portable OpenSSH is built using autoconf and make. It requires a working C compiler, standard library and headers.
34 ``libcrypto`` from either [LibreSSL](https://www.libressl.org/) or [OpenSSL](https://www.openssl.org) may also be used. OpenSSH may be built without either of these, but the resulting binaries will have only a subset of the cryptographic algorithms normally available.
36 [zlib](https://www.zlib.net/) is optional; without it transport compression is not supported.
38 FIDO security token support needs [libfido2](https://github.com/Yubico/libfido2) and its dependencies and will be enabled automatically if they are found.
40 In addition, certain platforms and build-time options may require additional dependencies; see README.platform for details about your platform.
42 ### Building a release
44 Release tarballs and release branches in git include a pre-built copy of the ``configure`` script and may be built using:
47 tar zxvf openssh-X.YpZ.tar.gz
49 ./configure # [options]
53 See the [Build-time Customisation](#build-time-customisation) section below for configure options. If you plan on installing OpenSSH to your system, then you will usually want to specify destination paths.
57 If building from the git master branch, you'll need [autoconf](https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) installed to build the ``configure`` script. The following commands will check out and build portable OpenSSH from git:
60 git clone https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable # or https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git
67 ### Build-time Customisation
69 There are many build-time customisation options available. All Autoconf destination path flags (e.g. ``--prefix``) are supported (and are usually required if you want to install OpenSSH).
71 For a full list of available flags, run ``./configure --help`` but a few of the more frequently-used ones are described below. Some of these flags will require additional libraries and/or headers be installed.
75 ``--with-pam`` | Enable [PAM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_authentication_module) support. [OpenPAM](https://www.openpam.org/), [Linux PAM](http://www.linux-pam.org/) and Solaris PAM are supported.
76 ``--with-libedit`` | Enable [libedit](https://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/) support for sftp.
77 ``--with-kerberos5`` | Enable Kerberos/GSSAPI support. Both [Heimdal](https://www.h5l.org/) and [MIT](https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/) Kerberos implementations are supported.
78 ``--with-selinux`` | Enable [SELinux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux) support.
82 Portable OpenSSH development is discussed on the [openssh-unix-dev mailing list](https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev) ([archive mirror](https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev)). Bugs and feature requests are tracked on our [Bugzilla](https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/).
86 _Non-security_ bugs may be reported to the developers via [Bugzilla](https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/) or via the mailing list above. Security bugs should be reported to [openssh@openssh.com](mailto:openssh.openssh.com).