How do you use PuTTY to connect to the CLI? 1

[bobbychorlton]

Hi,

I'm trying to connect to a BCM50 using PuTTY.
1 I provide the IP address
2 Putty connects
3 Putty pops up a warning about the identity
4 I accept the certificate
5 BCM presents a prompt
login as:
6 I reply with a valid admin userid
7 Putty ends with "No supported authentication methods left to try!" and finishes

What else do I have to do to get it to work?

Help!
Bob

 

[ctelep]

Hi,

From the documentation, putty is not supported on the BCM 50.
There is no management CLI on the BCM 50.
All management needs to be completed through the Element Manager, telset or through the BCM 50's web pages.

 

[bobbychorlton]

The BCM50 web page actually offers you PuTTY to download - so it must support it. Also, as it runs on Linux, it must have CLI as command line shells are integral to the operating system.

Furthermore, the list of services you can control from the Element Manager includes 'openssh-3.7.1p2-1' (from the BCM50 install log) - the open-source SSL secure shell daemon. This also utilises PAM - Pluggable Authentication Modules - which is a means for sshd to use a number of authentication methods.

The security_debug.log shows PAM in operation (and failing!):
2005-09-08T17:48:35.904 [INFO ] {SecurityDebug} (30950) - PAM Module authenticating
2005-09-08T17:48:35.905 [INFO ] {SecurityDebug} (30950) - Authenticating user (cscadmin) from (20.x.x.x)
2005-09-08T17:48:36.467 [INFO ] {SecurityDebug} (30950) - Processing privilege request for user id (1003)
etc...

 

[winkelhawk]

I had a conservtion with a Nortel engineer about the use of Putty. It is only used for Nortel to connect to the unit when they have to work on a trouble ticket. It is not like the BCM 200/400, where you have a command line.