Information that an SSH client must provide to an SSH server

To successfully launch an SSH session, an SSH client must provide two types of configurable information to an SSH server:

• A user id. This user id must correspond to an actual user id (such as user1 or root) on the SSH server.
• Some form of client authentication. That is, some evidence demonstrating that the SSH client is a valid client.

Host On-Demand supports two types of client authentication for SSH:

• Password authentication
• Public key authentication