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User's Manual 7. CLI-Based Management
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2. Open the Telnet/SSH Settings page ( Configuration tab > System menu >
Management > Telnet/SSH Settings ), and then do the following:
a. Set the 'Enable SSH Server' parameter to Enable .
b. Paste the public key that you copied in Step 1.d into the 'Admin Key' field, as
shown below:
c. For additional security, you can set the 'Require Public Key' to Enable . This
ensures that SSH access is only possible by using the RSA key and not by using
user name and password.
d.
e. Configure the other SSH parameters as required. For a description of these
parameters, see ''SSH Parameters'' on page
732 .
f. Click Submit .
3. Start the PuTTY Configuration program, and then do the following:
a. In the 'Category' tree, drill down to Connection , then SSH , and then Auth ; the
'Options controlling SSH authentication' pane appears.
b. Under the 'Authentication parameters' group, click Browse and then locate the
private key file that you created and saved in Step 4.
4. Connect to the device with SSH using the username "Admin"; RSA key negotiation
occurs automatically and no password is required.
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To configure RSA public keys for Linux (using OpenSSH 4.3):
1. Run the following command to create a new key in the admin.key file and to save the
public portion to the admin.key.pub file:
ssh-keygen -f admin.key -N "" -b 1024
2. Open the admin.key.pub file, and then copy the encoded string from "ssh-rsa" to the
white space.
3. Open the Telnet/SSH Settings page ( Configuration tab > System menu >
Management > Telnet/SSH Settings ), and then paste the value copied in Step 2 into
the 'Admin Key' field.
4. Click Submit .
5. Connect to the device with SSH, using the following command:
ssh -i admin.key xx.xx.xx.xx
where xx.xx.xx.xx is the device's IP address. RSA-key negotiation occurs
automatically and no password is required.