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bbensten_8485
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Aug 20, 2014

SSH Key Access

Hi,   We are trying to enable SSH Public key Login to our F5. It appears the switch for "pubkeyauthentication" is set to no and we are not certain how to set it to yes without modifying the sshd ...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Aug 22, 2014

If that doesn't work (please let us know if it does) you should be fine modifying the /config/ssh/sshd_config file directly but not any changes won't survive an upgrade.

 

If security is important to you I'd also recommend adding (although I haven't researched the best ciphers to use in a while);

 

Ciphers aes256-ctr,aes256-cbc,aes192-ctr,aes192-cbc

 

MACs hmac-sha1,hmac-md5