Reads the Connection Broker configuration file from FILE instead of the default location.

Sets the debug level string to LEVEL.

Dumps debug messages to FILE.

Make the currently running Connection Broker exit. This will terminate all connections.

Re-reads the configuration file (ssh-broker-config.xml) and takes it into use.

On Windows, starts the Connection Broker but does not start the GUI.

This option is used internally when a command-line client is started when the Connection Broker is not running.

On Windows, starts the Connection Broker GUI if it is not already running.

Displays program version and exits.

Displays a short summary of command-line options and exits.

On Windows, the help is only shown when running "ssh-broker-cli.exe -h" directly from the "C:\Program Files\SSH Communications Security\SSH Tectia\SSH Tectia AUX\Support Binaries" directory. Normally, ssh-broker-cli.exe is never run by the user, but it is automatically called by ssh-broker-g3.exe.

This is the user-specific configuration file used by ssh-broker-g3 (and sshg3, scpg3, and sftpg3). The format of this file is described in ssh-broker-config(5). This file does not usually contain any sensitive information, but the recommended permissions are read/write for the user, and not accessible for others.

On Windows, the user-specific configuration file is located in "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\SSH\ssh-broker-config.xml".

This file is used for seeding the random number generator. It contains sensitive data and its permissions should be read/write for the user and not accessible for others. This file is created the first time the program is run and it is updated automatically. You should never need to read or modify this file.

On Windows, the random seed file is located in "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\SSH\random_seed".

This file contains information on public keys and certificates used for user authentication when contacting remote hosts.

With SSH Tectia Client 5.x, using the identification file is not necessary if all user keys are stored in the default directory and you allow all of them to be used for public-key and/or certificate authentication. If the identification file does not exist, the Connection Broker attempts to use each key found in the $HOME/.ssh2 directory. If the identification file exists, the keys listed in it are attempted first.

The identification file contains a list of private key filenames each preceded by the keyword IdKey (or CertKey). An example file is shown below:

IdKey       mykey

This directs the Connection Broker to use $HOME/.ssh2/mykey when attempting login using public-key authentication.

The files are by default assumed to be in the $HOME/.ssh2 directory, but also a path to the key file can be given. The path can be absolute or relative to the $HOME/.ssh2 directory. If there is more than one IdKey, they are tried in the order that they appear in the identification file.

On Windows, the identification file is located in "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\SSH\identification". Key paths in the file can be absolute or relative to the %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\SSH directory. The default user key directory is "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\SSH\UserKeys" and the default user certificate directory is "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\SSH\UserCertificates".

This is the user-specific directory for storing the public keys of server hosts. You are prompted to accept new or changed keys automatically when you connect to a server, unless you have set strict-host-key-checking to yes in the ssh-broker-config.xml file. You should verify the key fingerprint before accepting new or changed keys.

When the host key is received during the first connection to a remote host (or when the host key has changed) and you choose to save the key, its filename is stored in hashed format. The hashed host key format is a security feature to make address harvesting on the hosts difficult.

If you are adding the keys manually, the keys should be named with key_<port>_<host>.pub pattern, where <port> is the port the Secure Shell server is running on and <host> is the hostname you use when connecting to the server (for example, key_22_alpha.example.com.pub).

If both the hashed and clear-text format keys exist, the hashed format takes precedence.

Note that the identification is different based on the host and port the client is connecting to. For example, the short hostname alpha is considered different from the fully qualified domain name alpha.example.com. Also a connection with an IP, for example 10.1.54.1, is considered a different host, as is a connection to the same host but different port, for example alpha.example.com#222.

On Windows, the user-specific host key files are located in "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\SSH\HostKeys".

For more information on host keys, see Server Authentication with Public Keys.

This is the initialization file for hashed host key names.

On Windows, the salt file is located in "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\SSH\HostKeys\salt".

If a host key is not found in the user-specific $HOME/.ssh2/hostkeys directory, this is the next location to be checked for all users. Host key files are not automatically put here but they have to be updated manually by the system administrator (root) or by using SSH Tectia Manager.

If the administrator obtains the host keys by connecting to each host, the keys will be in the hashed format. In this case, also the administrator's $HOME/.ssh2/hostkeys/salt file has to be copied to the /etc/ssh2/hostkeys directory.

On Windows, the system-wide host key files are located in %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\SSH\HostKeys.

This is the initialization file for hashed host key names. The file has to be copied here manually by the same administrator that obtains the host keys.

On Windows, the salt file for all users is located in "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\SSH\HostKeys\salt".

This is the default file used by OpenSSH clients that contains the public key data of known server hosts. It is supported also by SSH Tectia Client from version 5.1 onwards. The location of the file must be defined in the ssh-broker-config.xml file by using the known-hosts element. See known-hosts.

The file is never automatically updated by SSH Tectia Client. New host keys are always stored in the SSH Tectia $HOME/.ssh2/hostkeys directory.

The file contains one known host per row. The format of each row is the following:

hostnames  bits  exponent  modulus  comment

The hostname(s) in the file must be in clear-text format. Hashed hostnames are not supported.

For more information on the format of this file, see the OpenSSH sshd(8) man page.

This directory is the default location used by SSH Tectia Server 5.x for the user public keys that are authorized for login.

On SSH Tectia Server 5.x on Windows, the default directory for user public keys is %USERPROFILE%\.ssh2\authorized_keys.

This is the default file used by SSH Tectia Server 4.x (and SSH Secure Shell server 3.x) that lists the user public keys that are authorized for login. The file can be optionally be used with SSH Tectia Server 5.x as well.

On Windows, the authorization file is by default located in %USERPROFILE%\.ssh2\authorization.

For information on the format of this file, see User Authentication with Public Keys.

This is the default file used by OpenSSH server that contains the user public keys that are authorized for login.

For information on the format of this file, see the OpenSSH sshd(8) man page.