Configuring The Device As An Ssh Server; Ssh Server Configuration Task List; Generating A Dsa Or Rsa Key Pair - HP 4800G Series Configuration Manual

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Session request

After passing authentication, the client sends a session request to the server, while the server listens to

and processes the request from the client. After successfully processing the request, the server sends

back to the client an SSH_SMSG_SUCCESS packet and goes on to the interactive session stage with

the client. Otherwise, the server sends back to the client an SSH_SMSG_FAILURE packet, indicating

that the processing fails or it cannot resolve the request.

In this stage, the server and the client exchanges data in the following way:

The client encrypts and sends the command to be executed to the server.

The server decrypts and executes the command, and then encrypts and sends the result to the

The client decrypts and displays the result on the terminal.

In the interaction stage, you can execute commands from the client by pasting the commands in

text format (the text must be within 2000 bytes). It is recommended that the commands are in the

same view; otherwise, the server may not be able to perform the commands correctly.

If the command text exceeds 2000 bytes, you can execute the commands by saving the text as a

configuration file, uploading the configuration file to the server through SFTP, and then using the

configuration file to restart the server.

Configuring the Device as an SSH Server

Complete the following tasks to configure an SSH server:

Enabling SSH Server

Configuring the User Interfaces for SSH Clients

Configuring a Client Public Key

Configuring an SSH User

Setting the SSH Management Parameters

Generating a DSA or RSA Key Pair

The DSA or RSA key pair will be used to generate the session ID in the key and algorithm negotiation

stage and used by the client to authenticate the server.

Required for publickey authentication users and

optional for password authentication users

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