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BLADEOS 6.5.2 Application Guide
56 Chapter 3: Securing Administration BMD00220, October 2010
Although SSH and SCP are disabled by default, enabling and using these features provides the
following benefits:
Identifying the administrator using Name/Password
Authentication of remote administrators
Authorization of remote administrators
Determining the permitted actions and customizing service for individual administrators
Encryption of management messages
Encrypting messages between the remote administrator and switch
Secure copy support
The BLADEOS implementation of SSH supports both versions 1.5 and 2.0 and supports SSH
clients version 1.5 - 2.x. The following SSH clients have been tested:
SSH 1.2.23 and SSH 1.2.27 for Linux (freeware)
SecureCRT 3.0.2 and SecureCRT 3.0.3 for Windows NT (Van Dyke Technologies, Inc.)
F-Secure SSH 1.1 for Windows (Data Fellows)
Putty SSH
Cygwin OpenSSH
Mac X OpenSSH
Solaris 8 OpenSSH
AxeSSH SSHPro
SSH Communications Vandyke SSH A
F-Secure
Configuring SSH/SCP Features on the Switch
SSH and SCP features are disabled by default. To change the SSH/SCP settings, using the following
procedures.
To Enable or Disable the SSH Feature
Begin a Telnet session from the console port and enter the following commands:
To Enable or Disable SCP Apply and Save
Enter the following commands from the switch CLI to enable the SCP putcfg_apply and
putcfg_apply_save commands:
RS G8124(config)# [no] ssh enable
RS G8124(config)# [no] ssh scp-enable