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SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
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SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

by Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. Byrnes
May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
21h 5m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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sshd Keywords

OpenSSH

Tectia

Keyword

Value

Meaning

✓

✓

#

Any text

Comment line

✓

 

AcceptEnv

Variables

Copy client environment variables to server

 

✓

AllowAgentForwarding

Yes/no

Same as ForwardAgent

 

✓

AllowedAuthentications

Auth types

Permitted authentication techniques

✓

✓

AllowGroups

Group list

Access control by Unix group

 

✓

AllowHosts

Host list

Access control by hostname

 

✓

AllowSHosts

Host list

Access control via .shosts

✓

✓

AllowTcpForwarding

Yes/no

Enable TCP port forwarding

 

✓

AllowTcpForwardingForUsers

User list

Per user forwarding

 

✓

AllowTcpForwardingForGroups

Group list

Per group forwarding

✓

✓

AllowUsers

User list

Access control by username

 

✓

AllowX11Forwarding

Yes/no

Same as ForwardX11

 

✓

AuthInteractiveFailureTimeout

Seconds

 
 

✓

AuthKbdInt.NumOptional

# submethods

Set number of optional submethods required for authentication

 

✓

AuthKbdInt.Optional

Auth methods

Set optional authentication submethods for keyboard-interactive auth

 

✓

AuthKbdInt.Plugin

Filename

Path to plugin for keyboard-interactive auth

 

✓

AuthKbdInt.RADIUS.NASIdentifier

 

Client identifier for RADIUS keyboard-interactive authentication

 

✓

AuthKbdInt.RADIUS.Server

Server spec

RADIUS server for keyboard-interactive auth

 

✓

AuthKbdInt.Required

Auth methods

Set required authentication submethods for keyboard-interactive auth

 

✓

AuthKbdInt.Retries

# retries

Permitted retries for keyboard-interactive auth

 

✓

AuthorizationFile

Filename

Location of authorization file

✓

 

AuthorizedKeysFile

Filename

Location ...

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