Kaspersky Security Center 15.1 Windows

Step 9. Selecting accounts to access devices

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If necessary, add the accounts that will be used to start the remote installation task:

• No account required (Network Agent installed)

  If this option is selected, you do not have to specify the account under which the application installer will be run. The task will run under the account under which the Administration Server service is running.

  If Network Agent has not been installed on client devices, this option is unavailable.

• Account required (Network Agent is not used)

  Select this option if Network Agent is not installed on the devices for which you assign the remote installation task. In this case, you can specify a user account or an SSH certificate to install the application.

  • Local Account. If this option is selected, specify the user account under which the application installer will be run. Click the Add button, select Local Account, and then specify the user account credentials.

    You can specify multiple user accounts if, for example, none of them have all the required rights on all devices for which you assign the task. In this case, all added accounts are used for running the task, in consecutive order, top-down.

  • SSH certificate. If you want to install an application on a Linux-based client device, you can specify an SSH certificate instead of a user account. Click the Add button, select SSH certificate, and then specify the private and public keys of the certificate.

    To generate a private key, you can use the ssh-keygen utility. Note that Kaspersky Security Center supports the PEM format of private keys, but the ssh-keygen utility generates SSH keys in the OPENSSH format by default. The OPENSSH format is not supported by Kaspersky Security Center. To create a private key in the supported PEM format, add the -m PEM option in the ssh-keygen command. For example:

    ssh-keygen -m PEM -t rsa -b 4096 -C "<user email>"