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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
.\"
.\" Created: Sat Apr 22 21:55:14 1995 ylo
.\"
-.\" $Id: ssh.1,v 1.19 2000/03/17 12:40:17 damien Exp $
+.\" $Id: ssh.1,v 1.20 2000/03/26 03:04:54 damien Exp $
.\"
.Dd September 25, 1999
.Dt SSH 1
@@ -287,8 +287,8 @@ host key is not known or has changed.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl a
-Disables forwarding of the authentication agent connection. This may
-also be specified on a per-host basis in the configuration file.
+Disables forwarding of the authentication agent connection.
+This may also be specified on a per-host basis in the configuration file.
.It Fl c Ar blowfish|3des
Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the session.
.Ar 3des
@@ -342,8 +342,8 @@ It is possible to have multiple
options (and multiple identities specified in
configuration files).
.It Fl k
-Disables forwarding of Kerberos tickets and AFS tokens. This may
-also be specified on a per-host basis in the configuration file.
+Disables forwarding of Kerberos tickets and AFS tokens.
+This may also be specified on a per-host basis in the configuration file.
.It Fl l Ar login_name
Specifies the user to log in as on the remote machine.
This also may be specified on a per-host basis in the configuration file.
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ Causes all warning and diagnostic messages to be suppressed.
Only fatal errors are displayed.
.It Fl t
Force pseudo-tty allocation.
-This can be used to execute arbitary
+This can be used to execute arbitrary
screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be very useful,
e.g., when implementing menu services.
.It Fl v
@@ -514,8 +514,8 @@ The host is the
argument given on the command line (i.e., the name is not converted to
a canonicalized host name before matching).
.It Cm AFSTokenPassing
-Specifies whether to pass AFS tokens to remote host. The argument to
-this keyword must be
+Specifies whether to pass AFS tokens to remote host.
+The argument to this keyword must be
.Dq yes
or
.Dq no .
@@ -534,7 +534,8 @@ If this flag is set to
.Dq yes ,
ssh will additionally check the host ip address in the
.Pa known_hosts
-file. This allows ssh to detect if a host key changed due to DNS spoofing.
+file.
+This allows ssh to detect if a host key changed due to DNS spoofing.
If the option is set to
.Dq no ,
the check will not be executed.
@@ -645,7 +646,7 @@ If they are sent, death of the connection or crash of one
of the machines will be properly noticed.
However, this means that
connections will die if the route is down temporarily, and some people
-find it annoying.
+find it annoying.
.Pp
The default is
.Dq yes
@@ -657,15 +658,15 @@ To disable keepalives, the value should be set to
.Dq no
in both the server and the client configuration files.
.It Cm KerberosAuthentication
-Specifies whether Kerberos authentication will be used. The argument to
-this keyword must be
+Specifies whether Kerberos authentication will be used.
+The argument to this keyword must be
.Dq yes
or
.Dq no .
.It Cm KerberosTgtPassing
-Specifies whether a Kerberos TGT will be forwarded to the server. This
-will only work if the Kerberos server is actually an AFS kaserver. The
-argument to this keyword must be
+Specifies whether a Kerberos TGT will be forwarded to the server.
+This will only work if the Kerberos server is actually an AFS kaserver.
+The argument to this keyword must be
.Dq yes
or
.Dq no .
@@ -684,8 +685,9 @@ The possible values are:
QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE and DEBUG.
The default is INFO.
.It Cm NumberOfPasswordPrompts
-Specifies the number of password prompts before giving up. The
-argument to this keyword must be an integer. Default is 3.
+Specifies the number of password prompts before giving up.
+The argument to this keyword must be an integer.
+Default is 3.
.It Cm PasswordAuthentication
Specifies whether to use password authentication.
The argument to this keyword must be