Operation Manual – SSH Terminal Service
H3C S3600 Series Ethernet Switches-Release 1510 Chapter 1
SSH Terminal Service
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z Specifying the RSA private key file. On the server, if RSA authentication is
enabled for an SSH user and a public key is set for the user, the private key file
corresponding to the public key must be specified on the client. RSA key pairs are
generated by a tool of the client software.
The following takes the client software of PuTTY, PuTTYGen and SSHKEY as
examples to illustrate how to configure the SSH client:
I. Generating the Client Keys
To generate the client key pair, run PuTTYGen.exe, choose SSH-2 RSA under
Parameters and click Generate.
Figure 1-3 Generating the client keys (1)
Note that while generating the key pair, you must move the mouse continuously and
keep the mouse off the green process bar in the blue box of shown in
Figure 1-4.
Otherwise, the process bar stops moving and the key pair generating process is
stopped.