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Configure Authorized Administrator in FIPS Mode

An NDcPPv2.2e authorized administrator must have all permissions, including the ability to change the device configuration.

To configure an authorized administrator:

  1. Create a login class named security-admin with all permissions.
  2. Configure the hashed algorithm for plain-text passwords as sha512.
  3. Commit the changes.
  4. Define your NDcPPv2.2e user authorized administrator.

    Or

  5. Load an SSH key file that was previously generated using ssh-keygen. This command loads RSA (SSHv2), or ECDSA (SSHv2).
  6. Set the log-key-changes configuration statement to log additions or removals of SSH authentication keys.

    When you enable and commit the log-key-changes statement, Junos OS logs the changes to the set of authorized SSH keys for each user (including the added or removed keys). Junos OS logs the differences since the last time you enabled the log-key-changes configuration statement. If you never enabled the log-key-changes configuration statement, then the Junos OS logs all the authorized SSH keys.

  7. Commit the changes.

For details on how to start with shell mode, see Overview for Junos OS Guide.

Note:

You must reset the root password once you change the sha256/sha512 for the password storage format. This step protects the new password using a sha256/sha512 hash. To reset the root password, use the set system root-authentication plain-text-password password command, and confirm the new password when prompted.