NAME

       ssh-keysign — OpenSSH helper for host-based authentication

SYNOPSIS

       ssh-keysign

DESCRIPTION

       ssh-keysign  is  used by ssh(1) to access the local host keys and generate the digital signature required
       during host-based authentication.

       ssh-keysign is disabled by default and can only be  enabled  in  the  global  client  configuration  file
       /etc/ssh/ssh_config by setting EnableSSHKeysign to “yes”.

       ssh-keysign  is not intended to be invoked by the user, but from ssh(1).  See ssh(1) and sshd(8) for more
       information about host-based authentication.

FILES

       /etc/ssh/ssh_config
               Controls whether ssh-keysign is enabled.

       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
               These files contain the private parts of the host keys used to generate  the  digital  signature.
               They  should  be  owned by root, readable only by root, and not accessible to others.  Since they
               are readable only by root, ssh-keysign must be set-uid root if host-based authentication is used.

       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key-cert.pub
       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key-cert.pub
       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key-cert.pub
       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key-cert.pub
               If these files exist, they are assumed to contain public  certificate  information  corresponding
               with the private keys above.

SEE ALSO

       ssh(1), ssh-keygen(1), ssh_config(5), sshd(8)

HISTORY

       ssh-keysign first appeared in OpenBSD 3.2.

AUTHORS

       Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>

Debian                                           March 31, 2022                                   SSH-KEYSIGN(8)