AudioCodes Mediant 500 MSBR, User Manual

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User's Manual 86 Document #: LTRT-10375
Mediant 500 MSBR
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For all users: Open the CLI Settings page ( Setup menu > Administration tab >
Web & CLI folder > CLI Settings ), and then paste the public key that you copied
in Step 1.d into the 'Admin Key' field, as shown below:
Figure 8-4: Pasting Public RSA Key in 'Admin Key' Field
3. On the CLI Settings page, do the following:
a. From the 'Enable SSH Server' drop-down list, select Enable .
b. For additional security, you can configure the 'Require Public Key' field to Enable .
This ensures that SSH access is only possible by using the RSA key and not by
username and password.
c. To enable SSH from the WAN, set 'Allow WAN access to SSH' to Enable.
d. Configure the other SSH parameters as required. For a description of these
parameters, see SSH Parameters on page 1026.
e. Click Apply .
4. 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.
5. 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. You can use the public key per management user or for all users:
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Per user: Open the Local Users table (see Configuring Management User
Accounts on page 71), and then for the required user, paste the public key that
you copied in Step 2 into the 'SSH Public Key' field.
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For all users: Open the CLI Settings page, and then paste the public key that you
copied in Step 2 into the 'Admin Key' field.