Spectracom VersaSync User Manual page 76

2.7 Configuring Network Settings
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Edit the
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Click the Submit button or Apply button.
The file is to be formatted such that the key is followed by an optional comment, with only one
key per line. The file format, line terminations, and other EOL or EOF characters should cor-
respond to UNIX conventions, not Windows.
Editing the "authorized_key" File via CLI
Secure shell sessions using an SSH client can be performed using the admin or a user-defined
account. The user may use Account Password or Public Key with Passphrase authentication. The
OpenSSH tool SSH-KEYGEN may be used to create RSA and DSA keys used to identify and
authenticate user login or file transfers.
The following command lines for OpenSSH SSH client tool are given as examples of how to
create an SSH session.
Creating an SSH session with Password Authentication for the admin account
ssh spadmin@10.10.200.5
spadmin@10.10.200.5's password: admin123
You are now presented with boot up text and/or a ">" prompt which allows the use of the
Spectracom command line interface.
Creating an SSH session using Public Key with Passphrase Authentication for the
admin account
You must first provide the secure Spectracom product a RSA public key found typically in the
OpenSSH id_rsa.pub file. Then you may attempt to create an SSH session.
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authorized_keys
Note: If you delete ALL Public Keys, Public/Private Key authentication is disabled.
If you have selected SSH authentication using the
option, login and file transfers will be forbidden. You must select a method allow-
ing the use of account password authentication to enable login or file transfers
using SCP or SFTP.
file as desired.
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