3Com 4210 9-Port - Exporting the RSA or DSA Public Key

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This configuration task is unnecessary if the SSH user’s authentication mode is password.
For the publickey authentication mode, you must specify the client’s public key on the server for
authentication.
Table 1-10 Follow these steps to assign a public key for an SSH user:
To do... Use the command... Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
Assign a public key to an SSH
user
ssh user username assign
publickey keyname
Required
If you issue this command
multiple times, the last
command overrides the
previous ones.
Exporting the RSA or DSA Public Key
You can display the generated RSA or DSA public key on the screen in a specified format or export it to
a specified file, so that you can configure the key at a remote end when necessary.
Table 1-11 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 a
specified format or export it to a
specified file
public-key local export rsa
{ openssh | ssh1 | ssh2 }
[ filename ]
Required
Table 1-12 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 screen in
a specified format or export it to a
specified file
public-key local export dsa
{ openssh | ssh2 } [ filename ]
Required
The DSA public key format can be SSH2 and OpenSSH, while the RSA public key format can be SSH1,
SSH2 and OpenSSH.