https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/vm-series-in-the-public-cloud/ssh-certificate-authentication/m-p/1235144#M2383 <P>Yes, you need to generate ssh key-pair localy and upload the public key in user profile, and use the private key to ssh, I'm using this method in aws vmseries firewall, hope you can do this sameway in azure</P> Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:34:28 GMT skchakraborty 2025-07-31T18:34:28Z https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/vm-series-in-the-public-cloud/ssh-certificate-authentication/m-p/1226730#M2366 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I wanted to know if it is possible to require SSH certificate authentication as opposed to password authentication when doing a SSH logging into azure-hosted VM-series virtual firewalls? If this is possible, where can I find documentation that address this?</P> <P>I'm looking to improve security as certificate auth is orders of magnitude better than password auth.<BR />Thank you.</P> Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:18:56 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/vm-series-in-the-public-cloud/ssh-certificate-authentication/m-p/1226730#M2366 Ola.Ibitola 2025-04-16T17:18:56Z https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/vm-series-in-the-public-cloud/ssh-certificate-authentication/m-p/1235144#M2383 <P>Yes, you need to generate ssh key-pair localy and upload the public key in user profile, and use the private key to ssh, I'm using this method in aws vmseries firewall, hope you can do this sameway in azure</P> Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:34:28 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/vm-series-in-the-public-cloud/ssh-certificate-authentication/m-p/1235144#M2383 skchakraborty 2025-07-31T18:34:28Z