Owner's Manual

94 Using the RACADM Command Line Interface

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.

To use the PuTTY Key Generator for Windows clients to create the basic key:

Start the application and select SSH-2 RSA or SSH-2 DSA for the type of

key to generate (SSH-1 is not supported).

Enter the number of bits for the key. The number should be between 768

and 4096.

NOTE: The CMC may not display a message if you add keys less than 768 or

greater than 4096, but when you try to log in, these keys it fails.

Click

Generate

and move the mouse in the window as directed.

After the key is created, you can modify the key comment field.

You can also enter a passphrase to make the key secure. Ensure that you

save the private key.

You have two options for using the public key:

• save the public key to a file to upload later

• copy and paste the text from the

Public key for pasting

window when

adding the account using the text option