SSH authentication - verifying user's digital certificate

[rahul.sollapure]

Hi All, 

Could anyone please confirm, for the SSH sessions, does switch use the self signed certificate?

We haven't made any configuration changes on switch related to ip ssh server, not configured anything to verify user's digital certificate

Config on our device looks like below.

ip ssh time-out 60
ip ssh version 2

[balaji.bandi]

To make use of SSH login you need to generate key on the device.

Steps :

1. configure hostname XXX

2. configure ip domain-name bbandi.com <<- change as per requirement.

3. Generate RSA Keys - Crypto key generate rsa

4. enable ssh

and try.

[rahul.sollapure]

Thanks for your response.
Does this use a digital certificate for user authentication or is it just using public/private key encryption?

[balaji.bandi]

No - this is not uses digital certificate for authentication.

I may misunderstand your question here? what are you looking?

[rahul.sollapure]

Thanks for your comments on this.
Just wanted to know whether the self signed certificate on switch play any role in user authentication while we try to establish any SSH connection to switch.
Our switch has simple configuration of SSH as below

ip ssh time-out 60
ip ssh version 2

Thanks once again for your reply.

[balaji.bandi · Accepted solution]

No problem, we happy to help you.