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CAUTION:
• For more information about the authentication-mode and protocol inbound commands, see the
Fundamentals Command Reference .
• If you configure a user interface to support SSH, be sure to configure the correspondin
g
authentication
mode with the authentication-mode scheme command.
• For a user interface configured to support SSH, you cannot chan
g
e the authentication mode. To chan
g
e
the authentication mode, undo the SSH support configuration first.
Configuring a client public key
NOTE:
This configuration task is only necessary for SSH users using publickey authentication.
For each SSH user that uses publickey authentication to login, you must configure the client's DSA or RSA
host public key on the server, and configure the client to use the corresponding host private key.
To configure the public key of an SSH client, you can configure it manually or import it from the public key
file:
• Configure it manually—You can input or copy the public key to the SSH server. The public key must
have not been converted and be in the distinguished encoding rules (DER) encoding format.
• Import it from the public key file—During the import process, the system will automatically convert
the public key to a string coded using the Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS). Before
importing the public key, you must upload the public key file (in binary) to the local host through FTP
or TFTP.
CAUTION:
• HP recommends you to configure a client public key by importing it from a public key file.
• You can configure up to 20 client public keys on an SSH server.
Configuring a client public key manually
Follow these steps to configure the client public key manually:
To do… Use the command…
Remarks
Enter system view system-view —
Enter public key view public-key peer keyname —
Enter public key code view public-key-code begin —
Configure a client public key Enter the content of the public key
Required
Spaces and carriage returns are
allowed between characters.
Return from public key code view
to public key view
public-key-code end
—
When you exit public key code
view, the system automatically
saves the public key.
Return from public key view to
system view
peer-public-key end —