ssh/sshd_config option confusion ...

[Sandor W. Sklar]

Hello,

The item that causes me the most difficulty in deploying OpenSSH (and 
the commercial ssh, as well) is confusion over the large number of 
options for the configuration file; while the man page gives an 
explanation of each one, they are listed alphabetically there, with 
no "logical" grouping.

For my own use, I've created a heavily annotated sample sshd_config 
file, grouping all of the various directives in a way that seemed to 
make the most sense.  This file is available at:

  <http://whippet.stanford.edu/~ssklar/misc/openssh/sshd_config.txt>

... if anyone is interested; I'd appreciate being mailed if someone 
notices an error or omission (I based it on the 3.0.1p1 man pages).

If there is any interest in replacing the current sample conf files 
that are bundled with the distribution with this one (and the one 
I'll be doing for ssh_config), I'd be happy to keep up the 
maintenance on it for future changes to the software.  I'm not a 
programmer, so I can't contribute code, but I really appreciate the 
work of everyone who does, and perhaps this is some small way I can 
contribute.

Thanks, --Sandy
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   Sandor W. Sklar  -  Unix Systems Administrator  -  Stanford University ITSS
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