Configuring Secure Shell (SSH)

Prerequisite for Using SSH

Prerequisite for Using SSH

Before using the switch as an SSH server, you must install a publicly or commercially available SSH client application on the computer(s) you use for management access to the switch. If you want client public-key authentication (page 6-2), then the client program must have the capability to generate or import keys.

Public Key Formats

Any client application you use for client public-key authentication with the switch must have the capability export public keys. The switch can accept keys in the PEM-Encoded ASCII Format or in the Non-Encoded ASCII format.

Comment describing public key identity.

Beginning of actual SSHv2 public key in PEM-Encoded ASCII format.

Figure 6-3. Example of Public Key in PEM-Encoded ASCII Format Common for SSHv2 Clients

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Figure 6-4. Example of Public Key in Non-Encoded ASCII Format (Common for SSHv1 Client Applications)

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