Configuring A Client Public Key - 3Com 4500G Family Configuration Manual

To do...
Set the login authentication mode
to scheme
Configure the user interface(s) to
support SSH login
For detailed information about the authentication-mode and protocol inbound commands, refer
to User Interface Commands of the System Volume.
If you configure a user interface to support SSH, be sure to configure the corresponding
authentication method with the authentication-mode scheme command.
For a user interface configured to support SSH, you cannot change the authentication mode. To
change the authentication mode, undo the SSH support configuration first.

Configuring a Client Public Key

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 private key.
To configure the public key of an SSH client, you can:
Configure it manually: You can input or copy the public key to the local host. The copied 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.
You are recommended to configure a client public key by importing it from a public key file.
You can configure at most 20 client pubic keys on an SSH server.
Configuring a client public key manually
Follow these steps to configure the client public key manually:
Use the command...
authentication-mode scheme
[ command-authorization ]
protocol inbound { all | ssh }
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Remarks
Required
By default, the authentication
mode is password.
Optional
All protocols are supported by
default.