Configuring SSH Keys

You can configure the appliance to use an SSH key pair to login to target hosts. The SSH Key Management page enables you to generate a public/private key pair, and view and download the public key to deploy to target hosts. The key types supported are:

RSA v2 – (2048 bit)
DSA – (1024 bit)

This feature only supports a single key pair.

To View Existing SSH Keys

From the Dynamic Secondary Navigation bar on the Discovery tab, click the Credentials button.
The Login Credentials page is displayed.
Click the SSH Key Management tab.
The SSH Key Management page is displayed.

To Generate New SSH Keys

From the SSH Key Management page, click the Generate RSA Keys or Generate DSA Keys button, depending on the key type that you want.

If you have already generated a key pair, clicking the Generate Keys button will overwrite the existing key pair.
To view the public key, click the appropriate link to the left of the Generate button.
To download the public key, right click on the link and select the Save Link As... option from the browser popup menu.

Deleting Keys

You cannot delete keys using the UI. You need command line access to delete keys. To do this:

Login to the appliance command line.
Change to the /usr/tideway/.ssh directory.
Remove the key pair that you want to delete. The key pairs are:
- RSA v2 – id_rsa and id_rsa.pub
- DSA – id_dsa and id_dsa.pub

Create credential(s)

Key based authentication still requires a credential to be configured in order to at least specify a username, but without a password. For more detail on configuring credentials see Configuring Login Credentials. Note that due to the way SSH key exchange works, the SSH keys will be tried when making any ssh connection, even those with a password configured.

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Configuring SSH Keys

To View Existing SSH Keys

To Generate New SSH Keys

Deleting Keys

Create credential(s)