HP 5900 RADIUS and SSH disconnection

[lscharf]

Hello,

I have an IRF stack composed of 2x 5900 and 2x5920 switches.

I have a Windows NPS and configured the stack to use RADIUS.

I can successfuly connect to my switches with an AD login, but when I connect using ssh, I don't get a prompt and I am instantaneously disconnected.

For example :

ssh 10.xxx.xxx.xxx -l lscharf
lscharf@xxx@10.xxx.xxx.xxx's password:

******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2010-2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.          *
* Without the owner's prior written consent,                                 *
* no decompiling or reverse-engineering shall be allowed.                    *
******************************************************************************

Connection to 10.xxx.xxx.xxx closed.

Configuration looks like that :

line vty 0 63
 authentication-mode scheme
 user-role network-operator
 protocol inbound ssh
 idle-timeout 30 5

radius scheme xxx
 primary authentication 10.xxx.xxx.1
 primary accounting 10.xxx.xxx.1
 secondary authentication 10.xxx.xxx.2
 secondary accounting 10.xxx.xxx.2
 key authentication cipher xxx
 key accounting cipher xxx
 user-name-format without-domain
#
radius scheme system
 user-name-format without-domain
#
domain xxx
 authentication login radius-scheme xxx local
 authorization login radius-scheme xxx local
 accounting login radius-scheme xxx local

In the Windows Event Viewer, nothing abnormal, the connection is granted.

In the logbuffer I have SSHS/6/SSHS_LOG: Accepted password for lscharf@xxx from 10.xxx.xxx.xxx port 33420 ssh2.

So everything looks OK but that SSH connection is actually not working.

Anyone experienced that already and might have a solution for me ?

Thanks !

[sdide]

Hi lscharf

1 : Have you enabled the ssh server?

] ssh server enable

2: Have you genereated the key infrastructure

]  public-key local create dsa

]  public-key local create rsa

3: looks like you might need to configure radius authorisatuin server in your  raduis scheme

In your domain xxx , you ask to use  "authorization login radius-scheme xxx local",  but you have no radius athorization in the raduis scheme xxx.

4: also remember to set the default domain to xxx

] domain default enable xxx

if you use "ssh -l lscharf <management_ipaddress_of_switch>" and do not specify the domain explicitly.

NB: What software version are you running.

Regards

[lscharf]

Hello sdide,

I have ssh enabled and key generated as I am able to connect using the local admin account.

How to configure that authorization in the radius scheme ? As far as I'm aware, authorization uses the authentication setup.

[HP-radius-xxx]primary ?
  accounting      Specify the primary RADIUS accounting server
  authentication  Specify the primary RADIUS authentication server

If I remove the authorization attribute in the domain setup, I am unable to ssh the device with my AD login, I don't even get the warning anymore.

Regarding the version, I'm running the following :

HP Comware Software, Version 7.1.045, Release 2311P01
Copyright (c) 2010-2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
HP 5900AF-48XG-4QSFP+ Switch uptime is 10 weeks, 5 days, 23 hours, 12 minutes
Last reboot reason : Power on

Boot image: flash:/5900_5920-cmw710-boot-r2311p01.bin
Boot image version: 7.1.045P15, Release 2311P01
  Compiled Jul 16 2014 12:17:18
System image: flash:/5900_5920-cmw710-system-r2311p01.bin
System image version: 7.1.045, Release 2311P01
  Compiled Jul 16 2014 12:17:28

Thanks for your help.

[sdide]

Hi lscharf

I had a lot of trouble getting hwtacacs working on my 5900s.

I was using some old software and did a lot of debugging, but when i upgraded the software, the "problem" vanished (or rather the switch starting behaving like intended), so thats why i asked about the software version.

Apart from that.

try playing with :

<user-view>terminal monitor

<user-view>terminal logging level 7

<user-view> debugging radius [all, error, event]

<user-view> debugging ssh server  [all, error, event, message] 

<user-view> debugging role [all, error, event]

(what log-messages do you see)

and see what happens when you try logging on via the radius, if you can make such a setup.

Regards