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Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
On the server side, the ~/.ssh
directory
usually contains the following files:
-
authorized_keys
Contains your authorized public keys. The server uses the signed public key in this file to authenticate a client.
-
config
Contains client configuration settings. This file is optional.
CautionA
config
file can be readable and writable by the user but must not be accessible to other users.-
environment
Contains definitions of environment variables. This file is optional.
-
rc
Contains commands that ssh executes when a user logs in, before the user’s shell or command runs. This file is optional.
For more information, see the ssh(1)
and
ssh_config(5)
manual pages.