Tag :: SSH

EOS allows the generation of the following SSH keys, which can be used as host keys with default names.

This document describes the support for authenticating users using SSH certificates and the authorized principals command in EOS. SSH certificate authentication was previously restricted to just using the authorized principals file. This file is populated by configuring authorized principals for each user. In order to login with a SSH certificate a user must present a certificate that includes at least one of their configured principals. The authorized principals command allows this list of configured principals to be generated by an executable dynamically at runtime. This provides a more flexible and scalable way to perform SSH certificate authentication.

This document describes the support for performing SSH authentication with X.509 certificates. Authentication to SSH can be completed using a number of different methods. Public key, password and keyboard interactive are supported in EOS. Certificate login is a type of public key authentication in which the public key does not have to be stored on the server. Instead certificates belonging to trusted certificate authorities (CAs) are installed.

As of EOS-4.36.0F, a configurable user session timeout is supported for console, SSH, and telnet management sessions. This feature closes the user session (interactive) once the specified duration has been reached, regardless of user activity and independent of any configured idle-timeout. Upon session termination, a system message is generated to indicate the session’s closure. This feature is disabled by default.