Wednesday, December 5, 2012

How to make H3C device to support only SSH2 Authentication.

Often it is observed that the SSH connection authenticates both SSH1 and SSH2 connectivity.Which is a security concern for the security administrator.Hence there is a simple command that will disable SSH1 authentication and allow only SSH2 connection on a H3C based devices.

Note: SSH server needs to be enabled to carry out this.

H3C device : 

#Step 1 : enable the local SCHEME  for radius & domain authentication.

#  radius scheme system
    server-type extended
    primary authentication 127.0.0.1 1645
    primary accounting 127.0.0.1 1646
   user-name-format without-domain

domain system
 access-limit disable
 state active
 idle-cut disable
 self-service-url disable


#Step-2 : Add the user-group  and the local users.

#
user-group system
#

local-user admin
 password cipher $*)@$*&(%*&
 authorization-attribute level 3
 access-limit 4
 service-type ssh


# Step 3 : Enable the SSH server and impose restriction on the ssh connectivity

#
 ssh server enable
 undo ssh server compatible-ssh1x
#
user-interface aux 0 8
 authentication-mode scheme
user-interface vty 0 4
 authentication-mode scheme


# END




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