S_SERVER(1)

NAME
s_server - SSL/TLS server program

SYNOPSIS
openssl s_server [-help] [-port port] [-accept val] [-naccept count] [-unix val] [-unlink] [-4] [-6] [-context id] [-verify depth] [-Verify depth] [-crl_check] [-crl_check_all] [-cert filename] [-certform DER|PEM] [-key keyfile] [-keyform DER|PEM] [-pass arg] [-dcert filename] [-dcertform DER|PEM] [-dkey keyfile] [-dkeyform DER|PEM] [-dpass arg] [-dhparam filename] [-nbio] [-nbio_test] [-crlf] [-debug] [-msg] [-state] [-CApath directory] [-CAfile filename] [-no-CAfile] [-no-CApath] [-attime timestamp] [-check_ss_sig] [-explicit_policy] [-extended_crl] [-ignore_critical] [-inhibit_any] [-inhibit_map] [-no_check_time] [-partial_chain] [-policy arg] [-policy_check] [-policy_print] [-purpose purpose] [-suiteB_128] [-suiteB_128_only] [-suiteB_192] [-trusted_first] [-no_alt_chains] [-use_deltas] [-auth_level num] [-verify_depth num] [-verify_return_error] [-verify_email email] [-verify_hostname hostname] [-verify_ip ip] [-verify_name name] [-x509_strict] [-nocert] [-cipher cipherlist] [-serverpref] [-quiet] [-ssl3] [-tls1] [-tls1_1] [-tls1_2] [-tls1_3] [-dtls] [-dtls1] [-dtls1_2] [-listen] [-async] [-split_send_frag] [-max_pipelines] [-read_buf] [-no_ssl3] [-no_tls1] [-no_tls1_1] [-no_tls1_2] [-no_tls1_3] [-no_dhe] [-bugs] [-comp] [-no_comp] [-brief] [-www] [-WWW] [-HTTP] [-engine id] [-tlsextdebug] [-no_ticket] [-id_prefix arg] [-rand file(s)] [-serverinfo file] [-no_resumption_on_reneg] [-status] [-status_verbose] [-status_timeout nsec] [-status_url url] [-alpn protocols] [-nextprotoneg protocols]

DESCRIPTION
The s_server command implements a generic SSL/TLS server which listens for connections on a given port using SSL/TLS.

OPTIONS
In addition to the options below the s_server utility also supports the common and server only options documented in the in the "Supported Command Line Commands" section of the SSL_CONF_cmd(3) manual page.

-help
    Print out a usage message.

-port port
    The TCP port to listen on for connections. If not specified 4433 is used.

-accept val
    The optional TCP host and port to listen on for connections. If not specified, *:4433 is used.

-naccept count
    The server will exit after receiving number connections, default unlimited.

-unix val
    Unix domain socket to accept on.

-unlink
    For -unix, unlink existing socket first.

-4  Use IPv4 only.

-6  Use IPv6 only.

-context id
    Sets the SSL context id. It can be given any string value. If this option is not present a default value will be used.

-cert certname
    The certificate to use, most servers cipher suites require the use of a certificate and some require a certificate with a certain public key type: for example the DSS cipher suites require a certificate containing a DSS (DSA) key. If not specified then the filename "server.pem" will be used.

-certform format
    The certificate format to use: DER or PEM. PEM is the default.

-key keyfile
    The private key to use. If not specified then the certificate file will be used.

-keyform format
    The private format to use: DER or PEM. PEM is the default.

-pass arg
    The private key password source. For more information about the format of arg see the PASS PHRASE ARGUMENTS section in openssl(1).

-dcert filename, -dkey keyname
    Specify an additional certificate and private key, these behave in the same manner as the -cert and -key options except there is no default if they are not specified (no additional certificate and key is used). As noted above some cipher suites require a certificate containing a key of a certain type. Some cipher suites need a certificate carrying an RSA key and some a DSS (DSA) key. By using RSA and DSS certificates and keys a server can support clients which only support RSA or DSS cipher suites by using an appropriate certificate.

-dcertform format, -dkeyform format, -dpass arg
    Additional certificate and private key format and passphrase respectively.

-nocert
    If this option is set then no certificate is used. This restricts the cipher suites available to the anonymous ones (currently just anonymous DH).

-dhparam filename
    The DH parameter file to use. The ephemeral DH cipher suites generate keys using a set of DH parameters. If not specified then an attempt is made to load the parameters from the server certificate file. If this fails then a static set of parameters hard coded into the s_server program will be used.

-no_dhe
    If this option is set then no DH parameters will be loaded effectively disabling the ephemeral DH cipher suites.

-crl_check, -crl_check_all
    Check the peer certificate has not been revoked by its CA. The CRL(s) are appended to the certificate file. With the -crl_check_all option all CRLs of all CAs in the chain are checked.

-CApath directory
    The directory to use for client certificate verification. This directory must be in "hash format", see verify for more information. These are also used when building the server certificate chain.

-CAfile file
    A file containing trusted certificates to use during client authentication and to use when attempting to build the server certificate chain. The list is also used in the list of acceptable client CAs passed to the client when a certificate is requested.

-no-CAfile
    Do not load the trusted CA certificates from the default file location

-no-CApath
    Do not load the trusted CA certificates from the default directory location

-verify depth, -Verify depth
    The verify depth to use. This specifies the maximum length of the client certificate chain and makes the server request a certificate from the client. With the -verify option a certificate is requested but the client does not have to send one, with the -Verify option the client must supply a certificate or an error occurs.

    If the ciphersuite cannot request a client certificate (for example an anonymous ciphersuite or PSK) this option has no effect.

-attime, -check_ss_sig, -crl_check, -crl_check_all, -explicit_policy, -extended_crl, -ignore_critical, -inhibit_any, -inhibit_map, -no_alt_chains, -no_check_time, -partial_chain, -policy, -policy_check, -policy_print, -purpose, -suiteB_128, -suiteB_128_only, -suiteB_192, -trusted_first, -use_deltas, -auth_level, -verify_depth, -verify_email, -verify_hostname, -verify_ip, -verify_name, -x509_strict
    Set different peer certificate verification options. See the verify(1) manual page for details.

-verify_return_error
    Verification errors normally just print a message but allow the connection to continue, for debugging purposes. If this option is used, then verification errors close the connection.

-state
    Prints the SSL session states.

-debug
    Print extensive debugging information including a hex dump of all traffic.

-msg
    Show all protocol messages with hex dump.

-trace
    Show verbose trace output of protocol messages. OpenSSL needs to be compiled with enable-ssl-trace for this option to work.

-msgfile
    File to send output of -msg or -trace to, default standard output.

-nbio_test
    Tests non blocking I/O

-nbio
    Turns on non blocking I/O

-crlf
    This option translated a line feed from the terminal into CR+LF.

-quiet
    Inhibit printing of session and certificate information.

-psk_hint hint
    Use the PSK identity hint hint when using a PSK cipher suite.

-psk key
    Use the PSK key key when using a PSK cipher suite. The key is given as a hexadecimal number without leading 0x, for example -psk 1a2b3c4d.

-ssl2, -ssl3, -tls1, -tls1_1, -tls1_2, -tls1_3, -no_ssl2, -no_ssl3, -no_tls1, -no_tls1_1, -no_tls1_2, -no_tls1_3
    These options require or disable the use of the specified SSL or TLS protocols. By default s_server will negotiate the highest mutually supported protocol version. When a specific TLS version is required, only that version will be accepted from the client.

-dtls, -dtls1, -dtls1_2
    These options make s_server use DTLS protocols instead of TLS. With -dtls, s_server will negotiate any supported DTLS protocol version, whilst -dtls1 and -dtls1_2 will only support DTLSv1.0 and DTLSv1.2 respectively.

-listen
    This option can only be used in conjunction with one of the DTLS options above. With this option s_server will listen on a UDP port for incoming connections. Any ClientHellos that arrive will be checked to see if they have a cookie in them or not. Any without a cookie will be responded to with a HelloVerifyRequest. If a ClientHello with a cookie is received then s_server will connect to that peer and complete the handshake.

-async
    Switch on asynchronous mode. Cryptographic operations will be performed asynchronously. This will only have an effect if an asynchronous capable engine is also used via the -engine option. For test purposes the dummy async engine (dasync) can be used (if available).

-split_send_frag int
    The size used to split data for encrypt pipelines. If more data is written in one go than this value then it will be split into multiple pipelines, up to the maximum number of pipelines defined by max_pipelines. This only has an effect if a suitable ciphersuite has been negotiated, an engine that supports pipelining has been loaded, and max_pipelines is greater than 1. See SSL_CTX_set_split_send_fragment(3) for further information.

-max_pipelines int
    The maximum number of encrypt/decrypt pipelines to be used. This will only have an effect if an engine has been loaded that supports pipelining (e.g. the dasync engine) and a suitable ciphersuite has been negotiated. The default value is 1. See SSL_CTX_set_max_pipelines(3) for further information.

-read_buf int
    The default read buffer size to be used for connections. This will only have an effect if the buffer size is larger than the size that would otherwise be used and pipelining is in use (see SSL_CTX_set_default_read_buffer_len(3) for further information).

-bugs
    There are several known bug in SSL and TLS implementations. Adding this option enables various workarounds.

-comp
    Enable negotiation of TLS compression. This option was introduced in OpenSSL 1.1.0. TLS compression is not recommended and is off by default as of OpenSSL 1.1.0.

-no_comp
    Disable negotiation of TLS compression. TLS compression is not recommended and is off by default as of OpenSSL 1.1.0.

-brief
    Provide a brief summary of connection parameters instead of the normal verbose output.

-cipher cipherlist
    This allows the cipher list used by the server to be modified. When the client sends a list of supported ciphers the first client cipher also included in the server list is used. Because the client specifies the preference order, the order of the server cipherlist irrelevant. See the ciphers command for more information.

-serverpref
    Use the server's cipher preferences, rather than the client's preferences.

-tlsextdebug
    Print a hex dump of any TLS extensions received from the server.

-no_ticket
    Disable RFC4507bis session ticket support.

-www
    Sends a status message back to the client when it connects. This includes information about the ciphers used and various session parameters. The output is in HTML format so this option will normally be used with a web browser.

-WWW
    Emulates a simple web server. Pages will be resolved relative to the current directory, for example if the URL https://myhost/page.html is requested the file ./page.html will be loaded.

-HTTP
    Emulates a simple web server. Pages will be resolved relative to the current directory, for example if the URL https://myhost/page.html is requested the file ./page.html will be loaded. The files loaded are assumed to contain a complete and correct HTTP response (lines that are part of the HTTP response line and headers must end with CRLF).

-rev
    Simple test server which just reverses the text received from the client and sends it back to the server. Also sets -brief.

-engine id
    Specifying an engine (by its unique id string) will cause s_server to attempt to obtain a functional reference to the specified engine, thus initialising it if needed. The engine will then be set as the default for all available algorithms.

-id_prefix arg
    Generate SSL/TLS session IDs prefixed by arg. This is mostly useful for testing any SSL/TLS code (eg. proxies) that wish to deal with multiple servers, when each of which might be generating a unique range of session IDs (eg. with a certain prefix).

-rand file(s)
    A file or files containing random data used to seed the random number generator, or an EGD socket (see RAND_egd(3)). Multiple files can be specified separated by an OS-dependent character. The separator is ; for MS-Windows, , for OpenVMS, and : for all others.

-serverinfo file
    A file containing one or more blocks of PEM data. Each PEM block must encode a TLS ServerHello extension (2 bytes type, 2 bytes length, followed by "length" bytes of extension data). If the client sends an empty TLS ClientHello extension matching the type, the corresponding ServerHello extension will be returned.

-no_resumption_on_reneg
    Set the SSL_OP_NO_SESSION_RESUMPTION_ON_RENEGOTIATION option.

-status
    Enables certificate status request support (aka OCSP stapling).

-status_verbose
    Enables certificate status request support (aka OCSP stapling) and gives a verbose printout of the OCSP response.

-status_timeout nsec
    Sets the timeout for OCSP response to nsec seconds.

-status_url url
    Sets a fallback responder URL to use if no responder URL is present in the server certificate. Without this option an error is returned if the server certificate does not contain a responder address.

-alpn protocols, -nextprotoneg protocols
    these flags enable the Enable the Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation or Next Protocol Negotiation extension, respectively. ALPN is the IETF standard and replaces NPN. The protocols list is a comma-separated list of supported protocol names. The list should contain most wanted protocols first. Protocol names are printable ASCII strings, for example "http/1.1" or "spdy/3".

CONNECTED COMMANDS
If a connection request is established with an SSL client and neither the -www nor the -WWW option has been used then normally any data received from the client is displayed and any key presses will be sent to the client.

Certain single letter commands are also recognized which perform special operations: these are listed below.

q   end the current SSL connection but still accept new connections.

Q   end the current SSL connection and exit.

r   renegotiate the SSL session.

R   renegotiate the SSL session and request a client certificate.

P   send some plain text down the underlying TCP connection: this should cause the client to disconnect due to a protocol violation.

S   print out some session cache status information.

NOTES
s_server can be used to debug SSL clients. To accept connections from a web browser the command:

 openssl s_server -accept 443 -www

can be used for example.

Most web browsers (in particular Netscape and MSIE) only support RSA cipher suites, so they cannot connect to servers which don't use a certificate carrying an RSA key or a version of OpenSSL with RSA disabled.

Although specifying an empty list of CAs when requesting a client certificate is strictly speaking a protocol violation, some SSL clients interpret this to mean any CA is acceptable. This is useful for debugging purposes.

The session parameters can printed out using the sess_id program.

BUGS
Because this program has a lot of options and also because some of the techniques used are rather old, the C source of s_server is rather hard to read and not a model of how things should be done. A typical SSL server program would be much simpler.

The output of common ciphers is wrong: it just gives the list of ciphers that OpenSSL recognizes and the client supports.

There should be a way for the s_server program to print out details of any unknown cipher suites a client says it supports.

SEE ALSO
SSL_CONF_cmd(3), sess_id(1), s_client(1), ciphers(1)

HISTORY
The -no_alt_chains options was first added to OpenSSL 1.1.0.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2000-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.