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Peter Müller 7a981d94cb SSH: do not send spoofable TCP keep alive messages
By default, both SSH server and client rely on TCP-based keep alive
messages to detect broken sessions, which can be spoofed rather easily
in order to keep a broken session opened (and vice versa).

Since we rely on SSH-based keep alive messages, which are not vulnerable
to this kind of tampering, there is no need to double-check connections
via TCP keep alive as well.

This patch thereof disables using TCP keep alive for both SSH client and
server scenario. For usability reasons, a timeout of 5 minutes (10
seconds * 30 keep alive messages = 300 seconds) will be used for both
client and server configuration, as 60 seconds were found to be too
short for unstable connectivity scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
2022-04-23 14:27:56 +00:00

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# OpenSSH server configuration file for IPFire
#
# The full documentation is available at: https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config
#
# Only allow version 2 of SSH protocol
Protocol 2
# Listen on port 22 by default
Port 22
# Listen on every interface and IPv4 only
AddressFamily inet
ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
# Limit authentication timeout to 30 seconds
LoginGraceTime 30s
# Limit maximum instanctes to prevent DoS
MaxStartups 5
# Only allow safe crypto algorithms
KexAlgorithms sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com,curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256
Ciphers chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes128-ctr
MACs hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha2-256,umac-128@openssh.com
# Only allow cryptographically safe SSH host keys (adjust paths if needed)
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
# Only allow login via public key by default
PubkeyAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication no
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
# Permit root login as there is no other user in IPFire 2.x
PermitRootLogin yes
# Ignore user ~/.ssh/known_hosts file
IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes
# Do not allow any kind of forwarding (provides only low security);
# some of them might need to be re-enabled if SSH server is a jump platform
AllowTcpForwarding no
AllowAgentForwarding no
PermitOpen none
# Send SSH-based keep alive messages to connected clients to avoid broken connections
ClientAliveInterval 10
ClientAliveCountMax 30
# Since TCP keep alive messages can be spoofed and we have the SSH-based already,
# there is no need for this to be enabled as well
TCPKeepAlive no
# Add support for SFTP
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
# EOF