.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keyscan.1,v 1.18 2004/07/12 23:34:25 brad Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright 1995, 1996 by David Mazieres . .\" .\" 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 January 1, 1996 .Dt SSH-KEYSCAN 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm ssh-keyscan .Nd gather ssh public keys .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm ssh-keyscan .Bk -words .Op Fl v46 .Op Fl p Ar port .Op Fl T Ar timeout .Op Fl t Ar type .Op Fl f Ar file .Op Ar host | addrlist namelist .Op Ar ... .Ek .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. .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 ssh. 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 p Ar port Port to connect to on the remote host. .It Fl T Ar timeout Set the timeout for connection attempts. If .Pa timeout seconds have elapsed since a connection was initiated to a host or since the last time anything was read from that host, then the connection is closed and the host in question considered unavailable. Default is 5 seconds. .It Fl t Ar type Specifies the type of the key to fetch from the scanned hosts. The possible values are .Dq rsa1 for protocol version 1 and .Dq rsa or .Dq dsa for protocol version 2. Multiple values may be specified by separating them with commas. The default is .Dq rsa1 . .It Fl f Ar filename Read hosts or .Pa addrlist namelist pairs from this file, one per line. If .Pa - is supplied instead of a filename, .Nm will read hosts or .Pa addrlist namelist pairs from the standard input. .It Fl v Verbose mode. Causes .Nm to print debugging messages about its progress. .It Fl 4 Forces .Nm to use IPv4 addresses only. .It Fl 6 Forces .Nm to use IPv6 addresses only. .El .Sh SECURITY If a 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 Input 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 .Pp .Pa Output format for rsa1 keys: .Bd -literal host-or-namelist bits exponent modulus .Ed .Pp .Pa Output format for rsa and dsa keys: .Bd -literal host-or-namelist keytype base64-encoded-key .Ed .Pp Where .Pa keytype is either .Dq ssh-rsa or .Dq ssh-dss . .Pp .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts .Sh EXAMPLES Print the .Pa rsa1 host key for machine .Pa hostname : .Bd -literal $ ssh-keyscan hostname .Ed .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 $ ssh-keyscan -t rsa,dsa -f ssh_hosts | \e sort -u - ssh_known_hosts | diff ssh_known_hosts - .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ssh 1 , .Xr sshd 8 .Sh AUTHORS .An David Mazieres Aq dm@lcs.mit.edu wrote the initial version, and .An Wayne Davison Aq wayned@users.sourceforge.net added support for protocol version 2. .Sh BUGS It generates "Connection closed by remote host" messages on the consoles of all the machines it scans if the server is older than version 2.9. This is because it opens a connection to the ssh port, reads the public key, and drops the connection as soon as it gets the key.