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.TH LSHD 8 "Jul 06 2002" lshd "lsh manuals"

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.SH NAME

lshd \- server for the SECSH2 (Secure Shell v2) protocol

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B lshd

.RI [ options ] " files" ...

.SH DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the

.B lshd

command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution

because the original program does not have a manual page.

Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

.PP

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\fBlshd\fP is a program that listens on a specified port for secure shell

clients to connect and log in securely from a remote machine.

.SH OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long

options starting with two dashes (`-').

A summary of options is included below.

For a complete description, see the Info files.

.TP

.B \-\-debug

Print huge amounts of debug information.

.TP

.B \-q, \-\-quiet

Suppress all warnings and diagnostic messages.

.TP

.B \-\-trace

Print a detailed program trace.

.TP

.B \-v, \-\-verbose

Print verbose diagnostic messages

.TP

.B \-\-kerberos\-passwords

Recognise kerberos passwords, using the helper program

\fI/usr/sbin/lsh\-krb\-checkpw\fP (experimental).

.TP

.B \-\-login\-shell=\fIprogram\fP

Use this program as the login shell for all users (experimental).

.TP

.B \-\-no\-kerberos\-passwords

Don't recognise kerberos passwords (default).

.TP

.B \-\-no\-password

Disable password user authentication.

.TP

.B \-\-no\-publickey

Disable publickey user authentication.

.TP

.B \-\-no\-root\-login

Don't allow root to login (default)

.TP

.B \-\-password

Enable password authentication (enabled by default).

.TP

.B \-\-password\-helper=\fIhelper-program\fP

Use the named helper program for password  verification (experimental).

PAM passwords can be enabled by specifying

\fI\-\-password\-helper=/usr/sbin/lsh-pam-checkpw\fP.

.TP

.B \-\-publickey

Enable publickey user authentication (enabled by default).

.TP

.B \-\-root\-login

ALlow root to login.

.TP

.B \-\-pty\-support

.B \-\-no\-pty\-support

Enable pty allocation (enabled by default).

.TP

.B \-\-subsystems=\fIname\fP=\fIprogram\fP[,\fIname\fP=\fIprogram\fP...]

Lists subsystems to enable connections to (experimental).

For example:

\fI\-\-subsystems=sftp=/usr/sbin/sftp-server,foosystem=/usr/bin/foo\fP.

.TP

.B \-\-daemonic

Run in the background, redirect stdio to \fI/dev/null\fP, chdir to / and write

messages to syslog.

.TP

.B \-\-enable\-core

Dump core on fatal errors (disabled by default).

.TP

.B \-\-no\-daemonic

Run in the foreground, which messages to stderr (default).

.TP

.B \-\-no\-pid\-file

Don't use any pid file. Default in non-daemonic mode.

.TP

.B \-\-no\-syslog

Don't use syslog (by default, syslog is used when running in daemonic mode).

.TP

.B \-\-pid\-file[=\fIfile-name\fP]

Create a pid file. When running in daemonic mode, the default is

\fI/var/run/lshd.pid\fP.

.TP

.B \-?, \-\-help

Show summary of options.

.TP

.B \-\-usage

Show a short usage message.

.TP

.B \-V, \-\-version

Show version of program.

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR lsh (1),

.BR lshd (8).

.BR

The programs are documented fully by

.IR "Lsh" ,

available via the Info system.

.SH AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>,

for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).