Configuring public key authentication
To enable SSH public key authentication, you must first generate an SSH key and
associate it with an administrator account by using the security login publickey
create command. This allows the account to access the SVM. The security
login publickey create command accepts the following parameters.
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The name of the SVM that the account accesses. If you are configuring SSH public key authentication
for file system users, don't include |
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The username of the account. The default value,
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The index number of the public key. The default value is 0 if the key is the first key that's created for the account. Otherwise, the default value is one more than the highest existing index number for the account. |
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The OpenSSH public key. Enclose the key in double quotation marks. |
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The access control role that's assigned to the account. |
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Descriptive text for the public key. Enclose the text in double quotation marks. |
The following example associates a public key with the SVM administrator account
svmadmin for the SVM svm01. The public key is assigned
index number 5.
Fsx0123456::>security login publickey create -vserversvm01-usernamesvmadmin-index5-publickey"ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAspH64CYbUsDQCdW22JnK6J/vU9upnKzd2zAk9C1f7YaWRUAFNs2Qe5lUmQ3ldi8AD0Vfbr5T6HZPCixNAIzaFciDy7hgnmdj9eNGedGr/JNrftQbLD1hZybX+72DpQB0tYWBhe6eDJ1oPLobZBGfMlPXh8VjeU44i7W4+s0hG0E=tsmith@publickey.example.com"
Important
You must be an SVM or file system administrator to perform this task.
