Enabling SSh on the IP Phone

[Sunish Nair]

Hi,

I need to do get ssh option on the Cisco Phones, please help me how i can do this..

Is it possible to do, if yes what is the user name and password i have to use.

Regards,

Sunish

[paolo bevilacqua]

And for which purpose you need SSH to the phone ?

[Sunish Nair]

We need to make one application as requested by the customer... is there any way ... if i contact Cisco ...

[paolo bevilacqua]

"One application" like what ?

[anhidalg]

There already exist a document on how to get into SSH on the 79XX range of IP Phones

https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-13692#comment-10602

[TommyPedersen69598]

Dead link

[TommyPedersen69598]

Old question, but I put an answer here as I had problems finding the answer to the same question.

First however, question yourself if you really want to enable SSH as it makes the phone vulnerable, e.g. to DOS attacks. Best security practice is to never enable any features that could be avoided. I used it for debugging my installation and have now turned off it again.

I enabled SSH by putting the following lines in the SEPmac.cnf.xml file on the TFTP server (where mac is the MAC address of the phone):

<!-- The two following lines should be in the device section -->

<sshUserId>My_UserID</sshUserId> <!-- Replace My_UserID with a suitable user ID -->

<sshPassword>My_Password</sshPassword> <!-- Replace My_Password with a suitable password -->

<sshAccess>0</sshAccess> <!-- Enable SSH = 0, this line should be in the vendorConfig section  -->