Owner's Manual

92 Using the RACADM Command Line Interface
When getting ready to set up this functionality, be aware of the following:
• There is no GUI support for managing this feature; you can only use
RACADM.
• When adding new public keys, ensure that the existing keys are not already
at the index where the new key is added. CMC does not perform checks to
ensure previous keys are deleted before a new one is added. As soon as a
new key is added, it is automatically in effect as long as the SSH interface
is enabled.
• When using the public key comment section of the public key, remember
that only the first 16 characters are utilized by the CMC. The public key
comment is used by the CMC to distinguish SSH users when using the
RACADM
getssninfo command since all PKA users use the service
username to log in.
For example, if two public keys are set up one with comment PC1 and one
with comment PC2:
racadm getssninfo
Type User IP Address Login
Date/Time
SSH PC1 x.x.x.x 06/16/2009
09:00:00
SSH PC2 x.x.x.x 06/16/2009
09:00:00
For more information on the sshpkauth, see the RACADM Command Line
Reference Guide for iDRAC6 and CMC.
Generating Public Keys for Windows
Before adding an account, a public key is required from the system that
accesses the CMC over SSH. There are two ways to generate the
public/private key pair: using PuTTY Key Generator application for clients
running Windows or ssh-keygen CLI for clients running Linux.
This section describes simple instructions to generate a public/private key pair
for both applications. For additional or advanced usage of these tools, see the
application Help.