3Com WX3000 operation manual Exporting the RSA or DSA Public Key

Exporting the RSA or DSA Public Key

You can display the generated RSA or DSA key pair on the screen in a specified format, or export it to a specified file for configuring the key at a remote end.

Follow these steps to export the RSA public key:

To do…	Use the command…	Remarks
Enter system view	system-view	—
Display the RSA key on the screen in	public-key local export rsa
a specified format or export it to a	{ openssh ssh1 ssh2 }	Required
specified file	[ filnename ]

Follow these steps to export the DSA public key:

To do…	Use the command…	Remarks
Enter system view	system-view	—
Display the DSA key on the	public-key local export dsa
screen in a specified format or		Required
	{ openssh ssh2 } [ filnename ]
export it to a specified file

The DSA public key format can be SSH2 and OpenSSH, while the RSA public key format can be SSH1, SSH2 and OpenSSH.

Creating an SSH User and Specify an Authentication Type

This task is to create an SSH user and specify an authentication type for it. Specifying an authentication type for a new user is a must to get the user login.

Follow these steps to configure an SSH user and specify an authentication type for it:

To do…	Use the command…	Remarks
Enter system view	system-view	—
	ssh authentication-type	Use either command.
Specify the default	default { all password	By default, no SSH user is
	password-publickey
authentication type for all SSH		created and no authentication
	publickey rsa }
users		type is specified.
	ssh user username	Note that: If both commands
		are used and different
	ssh user username
		authentication types are
Create an SSH user, and	authentication-type { all	specified, the authentication
specify an authentication type	password	type specified with the ssh
for it	password-publickey	user authentication-type
	publickey rsa }	command takes precedence.

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