Local authentication tasks
The local authentication (local password and SSH public key) tasks are as follows. Simple tasks link to the relevant command description.
| Task | Command or procedure | Example |
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| Enable authentication as local (enabled by default) | aaa authentication login default |
Each of these two example commands enables authentication as local:
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| Remove any server-groups sequence, retaining authentication as local | aaa authentication login default |
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| Show authentication configuration | show aaa authentication |
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| Enable password-based authentication minimum password length checking | aaa authentication minimum-password-length |
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| Disable password-based authentication minimum password length checking | aaa authentication minimum-password-length |
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| Enable local password-based authentication login attempt limiting | aaa authentication limit-login-attempts |
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| Disable local password-based authentication login attempt limiting | aaa authentication limit-login-attempts |
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| Enable local password-based authentication for use with SSH clients (enabled by default) | ssh password-authentication |
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| Disable local password-based authentication for use with SSH clients | ssh password-authentication |
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| Enable SSH public key authentication (enabled by default) | ssh public-key-authentication |
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| Disable SSH public key authentication | ssh public-key-authentication |
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| Show state of local password-based (for SSH) and SSH public key authentication | show ssh authentication-method |
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| Copying the client SSH public key into the key list | user authorized-key |
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| Removing SSH public keys from the key list | user authorized-key |
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| Showing the SSH client public key list | show user |
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