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SSH-KEYSCAN(1) General Commands Manual SSH-KEYSCAN(1)
ssh-keyscan — gather SSH public keys from servers
ssh-keyscan [-46cDHv] [-f file] [-O option] [-p port] [-T
timeout] [-t type] [host | addrlist namelist]
is a utility for gathering the public SSH host keys of a number
of hosts. It was designed to aid in building and verifying
ssh_known_hosts files, the format of which is documented in
sshd(8). provides a minimal interface suitable for use by shell
and perl scripts.
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 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.
Hosts to be scanned may be specified by hostname, address or by
CIDR network range (e.g. 192.168.16/28). If a network range is
specified, then all addresses in that range will be scanned.
The options are as follows:
-4 Force to use IPv4 addresses only.
-6 Force to use IPv6 addresses only.
-c Request certificates from target hosts instead of plain
keys.
-D Print keys found as SSHFP DNS records. The default is to
print keys in a format usable as a ssh(1) known_hosts
file.
-f file
Read hosts or “addrlist namelist” pairs from file, one
per line. If ‘-’ is supplied instead of a filename, will
read from the standard input. Names read from a file
must start with an address, hostname or CIDR network
range to be scanned. Addresses and hostnames may
optionally be followed by comma-separated name or address
aliases that will be copied to the output. For example:
192.168.11.0/24
10.20.1.1
happy.example.org
10.0.0.1,sad.example.org
-H Hash all hostnames and addresses in the output. Hashed
names may be used normally by ssh(1) and sshd(8), but
they do not reveal identifying information should the
file's contents be disclosed.
-O option
Specify a key/value option. At present, only a single
option is supported:
hashalg=algorithm
Selects a hash algorithm to use when printing
SSHFP records using the -D flag. Valid
algorithms are “sha1” and “sha256”. The default
is to print both.
-p port
Connect to port on the remote host.
-T timeout
Set the timeout for connection attempts. If 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.
-t type
Specify the type of the key to fetch from the scanned
hosts. The possible values are “dsa”, “ecdsa”,
“ed25519”, “ecdsa-sk”, “ed25519-sk”, or “rsa”. Multiple
values may be specified by separating them with commas.
The default is to fetch “rsa”, “ecdsa”, “ed25519”,
“ecdsa-sk”, and “ed25519-sk” keys.
-v Verbose mode: print debugging messages about progress.
If an ssh_known_hosts file is constructed using without verifying
the keys, users will be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks.
On the other hand, if the security model allows such a risk, 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.
/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
Print the RSA host key for machine hostname:
$ ssh-keyscan -t rsa hostname
Search a network range, printing all supported key types:
$ ssh-keyscan 192.168.0.64/25
Find all hosts from the file ssh_hosts which have new or
different keys from those in the sorted file ssh_known_hosts:
$ ssh-keyscan -t rsa,dsa,ecdsa,ed25519 -f ssh_hosts | \
sort -u - ssh_known_hosts | diff ssh_known_hosts -
ssh(1), sshd(8) Using DNS to Securely Publish Secure Shell (SSH)
Key Fingerprints, RFC 4255, 2006.
David Mazieres <dm@lcs.mit.edu> wrote the initial version, and
Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net> added support for
protocol version 2.
This page is part of the openssh (Portable OpenSSH) project.
Information about the project can be found at
http://www.openssh.com/portable.html. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, see ⟨http://www.openssh.com/report.html⟩.
This page was obtained from the tarball openssh-9.6p1.tar.gz
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