3com WX3000 User Manual

 

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Selecting the protocol for remote connection as SSH. Usually, a client can use a variety of remote 

connection protocols, such as Telnet, Rlogin, and SSH. To establish an SSH connection, you must 

select SSH 

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Selecting the SSH version. Since the device supports SSH Server 2.0 now, select 2.0 or lower for 

the client. 

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Specifying the private key file. On the server, if public key authentication is enabled for an SSH 

user and a public key is set for the user, the private key file corresponding to the public key must be 

specified on the client. RSA key pairs and DSA key pairs are generated by a tool of the client 

software. 

 

The following takes the client software of PuTTY, PuTTYGen and SSHKEY as examples to illustrate 

how to configure the SSH client: 

To generate a client key, run PuTTYGen.exe, and select from the Parameters area the type of key you 

want to generate, either SSH-2 RSA or SSH-2 DSA, then click Generate. 

Figure 1-2 Generate a client key (1) 

 

 

Note that while generating the key pair, you must move the mouse continuously and keep the mouse off 

the green process bar in the blue box of shown in 

. Otherwise, the process bar stops moving 

and the key pair generating process is stopped.