Owner's Manual

password as a command-line parameter to Plink.
NOTE: This occurs only on the IT Assistant management station.
Passwords are always encrypted when transferred to the managed
system.
If passing passwords through the command line on the IT Assistant
management station is of concern, you can configure the updates to
use RSA keys instead of passwords. A blank password in IT Assistant
will trigger SSH authentication using the RSA keys.
To create RSA keys, perform the following steps:
NOTE: It is assumed that you are running an SSH2 server and are using
the RSA2 keys.
1. Run PuTTYgen (or your preferred mechanism) for generating public/
private key pairs. You can save your private keys (".ppk" files)
to any location on your system.
The following is a sample public key that you would put in a file
that you create called "authorized_keys2 for RSA2 keys."
ssh-rsa
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAxfMzTwS4Cwnua61h7kiad9l3Hvl
SeFIYPsZOrCYMuA++
9mPRraUEtrKNkwdaPKqPnc2/JFHyAxOu31jfUgQqgM2CSqwdr7fuowjseVVPTuG
5JdVR1BwUAXlJK/
Hy1BM+mkKHMuNe0jTrN/gUxcmlA0lHFaFNRjV++AeM15upJsk= rsa-key-20050209
Linux ships with other utilities for creating public/private key
pairs. You can download PuTTYgen from the following Web address:
"http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html"
The public keys are saved in the following configuration file on
the Linux system.
~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
2. Create this file, if it is not present.
3. You can store the private keys in the directory of your choice.
For security reasons, it is recommended that you set the
appropriate permissions for your private key files.
This is a sample "sshconfig.pro" file where you can configure the
names and location of your private keys:
#server[.user]=<path-to-file>
#A server-name of global would be appropriate to accommodate a
network where all or most systems are set up using the same key.
#global[.user]=<path-to-file>
global.root=C:\SSH Private Keys\root\global_root_privatekey.ppk
global.fred=C:\SSH Private Keys\fred\global_fred_privatekey.ppk
192.168.157.149.root=C:\SSH Private Keys\root\
system1_root_privatekey.ppk
192.168.157.151.fred=C:\SSH Private Keys\fred\