Enabling SSH server on Cisco IOS

Some people where asking me how to enable SSH on a IOS based Cisco device. As I've never used this before I decided to find out and write a little entry about it :)

All testing has been done on a Cisco SOHO 97 router with IOS soho97-k9oy1-mz.123-2.XC.bin. I have reports coming in this will not work with a Cisco SOHO 97 with IOS 12.2(8)YN. Possible because aaa new-model is only supported in IOS 12.3

Update: Arjen Halma informed me that an domain-name has to be specified before generating the RSA keys
ip domain-name $domain

Step 1: Generating RSA keys (This will take a while on a slow device)
conf term
crypto key generate


Step 2: Enabling aaa new-model
aaa new-model

Step 3: Defining username
username $username password 0 $password

You should be now allset to SSH to your router :)

Thanks :-)

Rink () - 20 November '04 - 18:40


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