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15.6.4 Installing SSH Public Key Authentication (Linux)

Alternately, the public key can be installed on the unit remotely from the linux host with the scp utility

as follows.

Assuming the user on the Management Console is called "fred"; the IP address of the console server is

192.168.0.1 (default); and the public key is on the linux/unix computer in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub. Execute the

following command on the linux/unix computer:

scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub \

root@192.168.0.1:/etc/config/users/fred/.ssh/authorized_keys

The authorized_keys file on the console server needs to be owned by "fred", so login to the

Management Console as root and type:

chown fred /etc/config/users/fred/.ssh/authorized_keys

If the Black Box device selected to be the server will only have one client device, then the

ssh-rsa

AAAB3NzaC1yc2Efg4+t

GHIAAA==name@client1

----BEGIN RSA

PRIVATE KEY----

MIEogIBAAKCAQEA

yIPGsNIS+a0LnPUMc

nujXXPGiOGyD3b79

KZg3UZ4MjZI525sCy

GYTByUdI

ssh-rsa

AAAAB3NzaC1ycEfg4+1

GHIZZ==name@client1

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1ycEfg4+IGHIAAA==name@client1

Master

Slave

authoriz ed_key

id_rsa

authoriz ed_key

id_rsa.pub