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1From affb41e3cf23b79a3d165ae0d97689a46a965b6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2From: Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>
3Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 16:09:52 +0000
4Subject: Various keepalive extensions
5
6Add compatibility aliases for ProtocolKeepAlives and SetupTimeOut, supported
7in previous versions of Debian's OpenSSH package but since superseded by
8ServerAliveInterval. (We're probably stuck with this bit for
9compatibility.)
10
11In batch mode, default ServerAliveInterval to five minutes.
12
13Adjust documentation to match and to give some more advice on use of
14keepalives.
15
16Author: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
17Author: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
18Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
19Last-Update: 2013-09-14
20
21Patch-Name: keepalive-extensions.patch
22---
23 readconf.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
24 ssh_config.5 | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
25 sshd_config.5 | 3 +++
26 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
27
28diff --git a/readconf.c b/readconf.c
29index 22e5a3a..2dcbf31 100644
30--- a/readconf.c
31+++ b/readconf.c
32@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ typedef enum {
33 oTunnel, oTunnelDevice, oLocalCommand, oPermitLocalCommand,
34 oVisualHostKey, oUseRoaming, oZeroKnowledgePasswordAuthentication,
35 oKexAlgorithms, oIPQoS, oRequestTTY, oIgnoreUnknown,
36+ oProtocolKeepAlives, oSetupTimeOut,
37 oIgnoredUnknownOption, oDeprecated, oUnsupported
38 } OpCodes;
39
40@@ -263,6 +264,8 @@ static struct {
41 { "ipqos", oIPQoS },
42 { "requesttty", oRequestTTY },
43 { "ignoreunknown", oIgnoreUnknown },
44+ { "protocolkeepalives", oProtocolKeepAlives },
45+ { "setuptimeout", oSetupTimeOut },
46
47 { NULL, oBadOption }
48 };
49@@ -939,6 +942,8 @@ parse_int:
50 goto parse_flag;
51
52 case oServerAliveInterval:
53+ case oProtocolKeepAlives: /* Debian-specific compatibility alias */
54+ case oSetupTimeOut: /* Debian-specific compatibility alias */
55 intptr = &options->server_alive_interval;
56 goto parse_time;
57
58@@ -1404,8 +1409,13 @@ fill_default_options(Options * options)
59 options->rekey_interval = 0;
60 if (options->verify_host_key_dns == -1)
61 options->verify_host_key_dns = 0;
62- if (options->server_alive_interval == -1)
63- options->server_alive_interval = 0;
64+ if (options->server_alive_interval == -1) {
65+ /* in batch mode, default is 5mins */
66+ if (options->batch_mode == 1)
67+ options->server_alive_interval = 300;
68+ else
69+ options->server_alive_interval = 0;
70+ }
71 if (options->server_alive_count_max == -1)
72 options->server_alive_count_max = 3;
73 if (options->control_master == -1)
74diff --git a/ssh_config.5 b/ssh_config.5
75index 89b25cd..135d833 100644
76--- a/ssh_config.5
77+++ b/ssh_config.5
78@@ -136,8 +136,12 @@ Valid arguments are
79 If set to
80 .Dq yes ,
81 passphrase/password querying will be disabled.
82+In addition, the
83+.Cm ServerAliveInterval
84+option will be set to 300 seconds by default.
85 This option is useful in scripts and other batch jobs where no user
86-is present to supply the password.
87+is present to supply the password,
88+and where it is desirable to detect a broken network swiftly.
89 The argument must be
90 .Dq yes
91 or
92@@ -1141,8 +1145,15 @@ from the server,
93 will send a message through the encrypted
94 channel to request a response from the server.
95 The default
96-is 0, indicating that these messages will not be sent to the server.
97+is 0, indicating that these messages will not be sent to the server,
98+or 300 if the
99+.Cm BatchMode
100+option is set.
101 This option applies to protocol version 2 only.
102+.Cm ProtocolKeepAlives
103+and
104+.Cm SetupTimeOut
105+are Debian-specific compatibility aliases for this option.
106 .It Cm StrictHostKeyChecking
107 If this flag is set to
108 .Dq yes ,
109@@ -1181,6 +1192,12 @@ Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages to the
110 other side.
111 If they are sent, death of the connection or crash of one
112 of the machines will be properly noticed.
113+This option only uses TCP keepalives (as opposed to using ssh level
114+keepalives), so takes a long time to notice when the connection dies.
115+As such, you probably want
116+the
117+.Cm ServerAliveInterval
118+option as well.
119 However, this means that
120 connections will die if the route is down temporarily, and some people
121 find it annoying.
122diff --git a/sshd_config.5 b/sshd_config.5
123index 18ec81f..510cc7c 100644
124--- a/sshd_config.5
125+++ b/sshd_config.5
126@@ -1161,6 +1161,9 @@ This avoids infinitely hanging sessions.
127 .Pp
128 To disable TCP keepalive messages, the value should be set to
129 .Dq no .
130+.Pp
131+This option was formerly called
132+.Cm KeepAlive .
133 .It Cm TrustedUserCAKeys
134 Specifies a file containing public keys of certificate authorities that are
135 trusted to sign user certificates for authentication.