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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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Software Inventory

Table 4-1 provides a reference to the many files and programs installed with SSH.

Table 4-1. Software inventory

Component

OpenSSH

Tectia

Server config

/etc/ssh/sshd_config

/etc/ssh2/sshd2_config

Global client config

/etc/ssh/ssh_config

/etc/ssh2/ssh2_config

Host private key

/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

/etc/ssh2/hostkey

Host public key

/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub

/etc/ssh2/hostkey.pub

Client host keys

/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts

~/.ssh/known_hosts

/etc/ssh2/hostkeys

~/.ssh2/hostkeys/*

Remote host keys

~/.ssh/known_hosts

~/.ssh2/knownhosts/*

libwrap control files

/etc/hosts.allow

/etc/hosts.deny

/etc/hosts.allow

/etc/hosts.deny

Authorization for login via public key

~/.ssh/authorized_keys

 

~/.ssh2/authorization

Authorization for login via trusted host

/etc/hosts.equiv

/etc/shosts.equiv

~/.shosts

~/.rhosts

/etc/hosts.equiv

/etc/shosts.equiv

~/.shosts

~/.rhosts

Default key pair for public-key authentication

SSH-2/RSA:

~/.ssh/id_rsa{.pub}

SSH-2/DSA:

~/.ssh/id_dsa{.pub}

(No default)

Random seed

~/.ssh/prng_seed [a]

~/.ssh2/random_seed

/etc/ssh2/random_seed

Commands for generating randomness

/etc/ssh/ssh_prng_cmds

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Terminal client

ssh

slogin link to ssh

ssh2 [b]

Secure file copy client

scp

scp2 b

Signer program

ssh-keysign

ssh-signer2 b

sftp2/scp2 server

sftp-server

sftp-server2 b

Authentication agent

ssh-agent

ssh-agent2 b

Key generator

ssh-keygen

ssh-keygen2 b

Key add/remove

ssh-add

ssh-add2 b

Find SSH servers

ssh-keyscan ...

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