Secure device access

The Unwired Edge Cloud OS offers different ways for you to access a device running the Unwired Edge Cloud OS.

Warning

DISCLAIMER - use at your own risk!

Accessing and configuring devices via SSH is potentially dangerous and may cause service disruptions. Unwired Networks shall not be held liable for any issues resulting from such activities.

For questions or assistance, please contact support@unwirednetworks.com.

Prerequisites

To be able to access a device, the following prerequisites have to be met:

  1. You MUST HAVE access to the customer with one of the following roles

  2. The device MUST BE running Unwired Edge Cloud OS

  3. The device MUST BE booted up and online

Jump Service

Follow these steps to enable YOUR personal SSH access through the Jump Service. You only need to upload your SSH key one time.

Enable Jump Service access

  1. Upload your public ed25519 SSH key to your profile under SSH Keys

  2. Enable access on a device-level via DEVICE MANAGEMENT

    • Select one or more devices in the list view, then BULK EDIT and Manage remote access; or

    • Open a device, then select More and Manage remote access

  3. Assign your SSH key and hit APPLY CHANGES or SAVE CONFIGURATION

  4. You have then enabled your SSH access for the selected device(s)

Warning

ATTENTION: In case you add a new device, you will need to enable access via Manage remote access again.

Jump Service usage

Hint

To access your device, you need to use the FULL MAC address in all examples below.

Here are some examples of accessing your device through the Jump Service.

Command

Description

ssh <MAC>@jump.wifi.unwired.at or
ssh -l <MAC> jump.wifi.unwired.at

SSH into your device through the Jump Service

ssh -L 8443:localhost:443 <MAC>@jump.wifi.unwired.at

Forward local port 8443 to the device’s localhost:443

ssh -R 80:localhost:8080 <MAC>@jump.wifi.unwired.at

Expose your local 8080 on the device’s port 80

ssh -N -L 5432:db.lan:5432 <MAC>@jump.wifi.unwired.at

Tunnel only, no remote shell
Forward local port 5432 to db.lan:5432 via the device

scp -O file.txt <MAC>@jump.wifi.unwired.at:/tmp/

Copy local file.txt to the device’s /tmp/ directory

scp -O <MAC>@jump.wifi.unwired.at:/tmp/file.txt .

Copy /tmp/file.txt from the device to your local directory