Quick Reference Guide

SSH Commands 381
Syntax
• user-key username { rsa | dsa }
• no user-key username
• username — Specifies the remote SSH client username, which can be up to 48 characters long.
• rsa — RSA key.
• dsa — DSA key.
Default Configuration
By default, there are no keys.
Command Mode
SSH Public Key Chain Configuration mode.
User Guidelines
• Follow this command with the key-string command to specify the key.
Example
The following example enables a SSH public key to be manually configured for the SSH public key chain
called "bob".
key-string
The key-string SSH Public Key-String Configuration mode command manually specifies a SSH public
key.
Syntax
• key-string row key-string
• row — Specify SSH public key row by row
• key-string — UU-encoded DER format is the same format in authorized_keys file used by
OpenSSH.
Default Configuration
By default, the keys do not exist.
Console(config-pubkey-chain)# user-key bob rsa
Console(config-pubkey-key)# key-string row key-string
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCvTnRwPWl
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