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diff --git a/crypto/openssh/ssh-keyscan.1 b/crypto/openssh/ssh-keyscan.1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f9df75d42f1a --- /dev/null +++ b/crypto/openssh/ssh-keyscan.1 @@ -0,0 +1,158 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keyscan.1,v 1.45 2019/11/30 07:07:59 jmc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright 1995, 1996 by David Mazieres <dm@lcs.mit.edu>. +.\" +.\" Modification and redistribution in source and binary forms is +.\" permitted provided that due credit is given to the author and the +.\" OpenBSD project by leaving this copyright notice intact. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 30 2019 $ +.Dt SSH-KEYSCAN 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ssh-keyscan +.Nd gather SSH public keys from servers +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm ssh-keyscan +.Op Fl 46cDHv +.Op Fl f Ar file +.Op Fl p Ar port +.Op Fl T Ar timeout +.Op Fl t Ar type +.Op Ar host | addrlist namelist +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +is a utility for gathering the public SSH host keys of a number of +hosts. +It was designed to aid in building and verifying +.Pa ssh_known_hosts +files, +the format of which is documented in +.Xr sshd 8 . +.Nm +provides a minimal interface suitable for use by shell and perl +scripts. +.Pp +.Nm +uses non-blocking socket I/O to contact as many hosts as possible in +parallel, so it is very efficient. +The keys from a domain of 1,000 +hosts can be collected in tens of seconds, even when some of those +hosts are down or do not run +.Xr sshd 8 . +For scanning, one does not need +login access to the machines that are being scanned, nor does the +scanning process involve any encryption. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl 4 +Force +.Nm +to use IPv4 addresses only. +.It Fl 6 +Force +.Nm +to use IPv6 addresses only. +.It Fl c +Request certificates from target hosts instead of plain keys. +.It Fl D +Print keys found as SSHFP DNS records. +The default is to print keys in a format usable as a +.Xr ssh 1 +.Pa known_hosts +file. +.It Fl f Ar file +Read hosts or +.Dq addrlist namelist +pairs from +.Ar file , +one per line. +If +.Sq - +is supplied instead of a filename, +.Nm +will read from the standard input. +Input is expected in the format: +.Bd -literal +1.2.3.4,1.2.4.4 name.my.domain,name,n.my.domain,n,1.2.3.4,1.2.4.4 +.Ed +.It Fl H +Hash all hostnames and addresses in the output. +Hashed names may be used normally by +.Xr ssh 1 +and +.Xr sshd 8 , +but they do not reveal identifying information should the file's contents +be disclosed. +.It Fl p Ar port +Connect to +.Ar port +on the remote host. +.It Fl T Ar timeout +Set the timeout for connection attempts. +If +.Ar timeout +seconds have elapsed since a connection was initiated to a host or since the +last time anything was read from that host, the connection is +closed and the host in question considered unavailable. +The default is 5 seconds. +.It Fl t Ar type +Specify the type of the key to fetch from the scanned hosts. +The possible values are +.Dq dsa , +.Dq ecdsa , +.Dq ed25519 , +or +.Dq rsa . +Multiple values may be specified by separating them with commas. +The default is to fetch +.Dq rsa , +.Dq ecdsa , +and +.Dq ed25519 +keys. +.It Fl v +Verbose mode: +print debugging messages about progress. +.El +.Pp +If an ssh_known_hosts file is constructed using +.Nm +without verifying the keys, users will be vulnerable to +.Em man in the middle +attacks. +On the other hand, if the security model allows such a risk, +.Nm +can help in the detection of tampered keyfiles or man in the middle +attacks which have begun after the ssh_known_hosts file was created. +.Sh FILES +.Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts +.Sh EXAMPLES +Print the RSA host key for machine +.Ar hostname : +.Pp +.Dl $ ssh-keyscan -t rsa hostname +.Pp +Find all hosts from the file +.Pa ssh_hosts +which have new or different keys from those in the sorted file +.Pa ssh_known_hosts : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ ssh-keyscan -t rsa,dsa,ecdsa,ed25519 -f ssh_hosts | \e + sort -u - ssh_known_hosts | diff ssh_known_hosts - +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ssh 1 , +.Xr sshd 8 +.Rs +.%D 2006 +.%R RFC 4255 +.%T Using DNS to Securely Publish Secure Shell (SSH) Key Fingerprints +.Re +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +.An David Mazieres Aq Mt dm@lcs.mit.edu +wrote the initial version, and +.An Wayne Davison Aq Mt wayned@users.sourceforge.net +added support for protocol version 2. |