Dell PowerSwitch S4820T Configuration Guide for the S4820T System 9.112.0P1 - Page 790

Password Authentication : enabled. Hostbased Authentication : disabled. RSA Authentication : disabled. Vty Encryption HMAC Remote IP Using RSA Authentication of SSH The following procedure authenticates an SSH client based on an RSA key using RSA authentication. This method uses SSH version 2. 1 On the SSH client (Unix machine), generate an RSA key, as shown in the following example. 2 Copy the public key id_rsa.pub to the Dell Networking system. 3 Disable password authentication if enabled. CONFIGURATION mode no ip ssh password-authentication enable 4 Enable RSA authentication in SSH. CONFIGURATION Mode ip ssh rsa-authentication enable 5 Install user's public key for RSA authentication in SSH. EXEC Privilege Mode ip ssh rsa-authentication my-authorized-keys flash://public_key Example of Generating RSA Keys admin@Unix_client#ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/admin/.ssh/id_rsa): /home/admin/.ssh/id_rsa already exists. Overwrite (y/n)? y Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /home/admin/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/admin/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. Configuring Host-Based SSH Authentication Authenticate a particular host. This method uses SSH version 2. To configure host-based authentication, use the following commands. 1 Configure RSA Authentication. Refer to Using RSA Authentication of SSH. 2 Create shosts by copying the public RSA key to the file shosts in the directory .ssh, and write the IP address of the host to the file. cp /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub /.ssh/shosts Refer to the first example. 3 Create a list of IP addresses and usernames that are permitted to SSH in a file called rhosts. Refer to the second example. 4 Copy the file shosts and rhosts to the Dell Networking system. 5 Disable password authentication and RSA authentication, if configured CONFIGURATION mode or EXEC Privilege mode no ip ssh password-authentication or no ip ssh rsa-authentication 6 Enable host-based authentication. CONFIGURATION mode 790 Security