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Generating ssh keys for the domain – Nortel Networks 5500 series User Manual

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Managing the network access devices

Generating SSH keys for the domain

To generate, view, and export the public SSH key for the domain, use the
following command:

/cfg/domain #/sshkey

The NSNAS SSH key menu appears.

The NSNAS SSH key menu includes the following options:

/cfg/domain #/sshkey

followed by:

generate

Generates an SSH public key for the domain.
There can be only one key in effect for the Nortel
SNAS domain at any one time. If a key already
exists, you are prompted to confirm that you want
to replace it.

Enter

Apply

to apply the change immediately and

create the key.

show

The SSH public key generated for the domain.

export

Exports the Nortel SNAS domain public key to a
file exchange server. You are prompted to enter
the following information:

protocol—options are

tftp|ftp|scp|sftp

.

The default is

tftp

.

ATTENTION

Use TFTP to export to an Ethernet Routing
Switch 5500 Series switch. Ethernet Routing
Switch 5500 Series switches do not support
the other protocols.

host name or IP address of the server

file name of the key (file type .pub) you are
exporting

for FTP, SCP, and SFTP, user name and
password to access the file exchange server

To export the key directly to an Ethernet Routing
Switch 8300, use the

/cfg/domain #/switch

#/sshkey/export

command (see

“Managing

SSH keys for Nortel SNAS communication” (page
71)

).

Nortel Secure Network Access Switch

Using the Command Line Interface

NN47230-100

03.01

Standard

28 July 2008

Copyright © 2007, 2008 Nortel Networks

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