SSH Remote Connections

For increased security, you can connect to your Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller using SSH. An SSH client is required for this type of connection.

The Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller supports five concurrent SSH and/or SFTP sessions.

There are two ways to use SSH to connect to your Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller. The first works the way a Telnet connection works, except that authentication takes place before the connection to the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller is made. The second requires that you set an additional password.

1. To initiate an SSH connection to the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller without specifying users and SSH user passwords:
   1. Open your SSH client (with an open source client, etc.).
   2. At the prompt in the SSH client, type the ssh command, a Space, the IPv4 address of your Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller, and then press Enter.

      The SSH client prompts you for a password before connecting to the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller. Enter the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller’s User mode password. After it is authenticated, an SSH session is initiated and you can continue with tasks in User mode or enable Superuser mode.

      Note:

      You can also create connections to the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller using additional username and password options.
2. To initiate an SSH connection to the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller with an SSH username and password:
   1. In the ACLI at the Superuser prompt, type the ssh-password and press Enter. Enter the name of the user you want to establish. Then enter a password for that user when prompted. Passwords do not appear on your screen.

      ORACLE# ssh-password
      SSH username [saved]: MJones
      Enter new password: 95X-SD
      Enter new password again: 95X-SD

      After you configure ssh-password, the SSH login accepts the username and password you set, as well as the default SSH/SFTP usernames: User and admin.

   2. Configure your SSH client to connect to your Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller’s management IPv4 address using the username you just created. The standard version of this command would be:

      ssh -l MJones 10.0.1.57

   3. Enter the SSH password you set in the ACLI.

      MJones@10.0.2.54 password: 95X-SD

   4. Enter your User password to work in User mode on the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller. Enable Superuser mode and enter your password to work in Superuser mode.
   5. A Telnet session window opens and you can enter your password to use the ACLI.