Tagged: ssh

ssh asking for password when it shouldn’t 0

ssh asking for password when it shouldn’t

After a recent Ubuntu upgrade, one of my frequented remote servers stopped accepting my public key and was prompting me for my password.  The password is gross and unwieldy and I was most put-out, I must say.  So, I googled the title of this post.  Mostly suggestions to check the permissions of various files.  All of mine were locked tight to user-only, including my home directory. Of course, I’d already tried ssh -vvv to get all the debugging output.  Unfortunately,...

ssh: no matching cipher found 0

ssh: no matching cipher found

After a recent Ubuntu upgrade on my home machine, ssh attempts to it from the VirtualBox instance at work stopped working.   Here’s what ssh spewed back at me: no matching cipher found: client blowfish-cbc,arcfour server aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com   Impatient, I just logged in from another machine.  The VM runs CentOS 5.10 so that its environment is comparable with what [used to be] present on the majority of our production servers.   I’m an anti-RedHat bigot in the first place, and didn’t...