Cisco Security Shell (SSH)

 

Set your Username

R (config) # hostname cisco

Set the domain name (the user name and domain name are required when the encrypted password is generated)

R (config) # ip domain-name cisco.com

Generate an encryption key for an encrypted session:

R (config) # crypto key generate rsa general-keys modulus 1024

Set the maximum space idle timer for an SSH session

R (config) # ip ssh time-out 60

Maximum Failed attempts for SSH connections:

R (config) # ip ssh authentication-retries 2

Connect to the vty line of the router:

R (config) # line vty 0 1180

Finally, configure SSH and use telnet as the Access Protocol:

R (config-line) # transport input ssh 123456

Encrypted password

R (config) # service password-encryption

 

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