ClusterWare User Guide
  • 👋Welcome to ClusterWare!
  • Learning Path
    • 🔭Overview
    • 1️⃣Create a distributed NodeJS application in 10 minutes
      • Step 1: Create a new cluster
      • Step 2: Onboard servers to ClusterWare
      • Step 3: Install server software
      • Step 4: Create application instances
      • Step 5: Import application source code
      • Step 6: Start the application
      • Step 7: Create and start application load balancer
    • 2️⃣Uniformly secure access to your infrastructure
      • Step 1: Create Security Policy
      • Step 2: Install Firewall
      • Step 3: Apply Security Policies
    • 3️⃣Secure the data in-transit with SSL
      • Step 1: Gateway Security
      • Step 2: Endpoints Security
    • 4️⃣Eliminate a single point of failure in 10 minutes
      • Step 1: Onboard a new server
      • Step 2: Install Niginx
      • Step 3: Configure DNS
      • Step 4: Create and start the failover load balancer
      • Step 5: Run a load balancer outage experiment
  • Fundamentals
    • 🧩Sync, Insights, Tasks
    • 🤖Supported Technologies
    • 🛡️Server Authentication Methods
    • 💡Connectivity Troubleshooting
  • Services
    • Clusters
      • Cluster Selection & Creation
      • Editing Cluster
      • Notification Subscriptions
      • Auto-deployment (CI/CD)
    • Dashboard
      • Load Balancers & Applications
    • Servers
      • Create/Edit Server
      • Status
      • Software
      • Security
        • Enabling Non-Root Firewall Status Checking
        • Changing Firewall Status
        • Applying Security Policies
      • Metrics
      • Alerts
    • Applications
      • Create/Edit Application
      • Status
      • Git
      • Output Log / Error Log
      • Metrics
      • Alerts
    • Load Balancing
      • Create/Edit Load Balancer
      • Status
      • Gateway Security
      • Endpoint Security
    • Security Policies
      • Create/Edit Security Policy
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  • SSH Public Key Authentication (recommended)
  • Password Authentication (not recommended)
  1. Fundamentals

Server Authentication Methods

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Last updated 11 months ago

SSH Public Key Authentication (recommended)

ClusterWare supports the following cipher systems and formats:

For private key

  • PEM encoded OpenSSH

For public key

  • ssh-ed25519

  • ecdsa-sha2-nistp256

  • ecdsa-sha2-nistp384

  • ecdsa-sha2-nistp521

RSA keys are no longer allowed for security reasons.

Password Authentication (not recommended)

ClusterWare supports SSH password authentication, however some operating systems have that option disabled by default.

ClusterWare recommends using

🛡️
SSH Public Key Authentication