ssh problem

[azfar]

I am trying to ssh a remote box from putty but I am getting following error.

"No supported authentication methods available"

I don't have access to the server so I must have make my ssh client compatible to ssh server.

This is the trace from another client

[SSH] Protocol Version 2 (OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu6)
[SSH] Cipher: aes128-ctr
[SSH] FAIL: Unable to authenticate
[SSH] INFO: DISCONNECT

How can I fix it?

[Irithori]

*Assuming* you have an account on that box, then you were also given a way to authenticate.
username/password or a private key or ..

Try these ways, and if they fail, then that´s it.
You will then need to contact the admin of that server and ask for new credentials.


As a sidenote:
If you have a openssl keyfile, then this would need to be converted to putty first with puttygen

[hml2004]

Based on the error msg, try to connect to the server using
different "connection type", i.e.
either "telnet" or "rlogin".
The default connection type is "ssh", which is secure and
hence preferred.
Good luck!

[ss81]

Hi,
As per the error message "No supported authentication methods available" I think the certificate you are using to connect the server is not correct.

[BrianMicek]

Hi, I think I've experienced what you are seeing. Openssh requires some kind of encryption from the client to server. You can't turn it off as far as I know. Following the asymmetric portion of your connection, random numbers are generated for faster symmetric algorithms (for instance AES). Prior to this pivot, both ends have to agree on algorithms to use. If they cannot agree on an algorithm, you'll see a message like this.

In my case, this happened because I limited my ciphers in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to:
Ciphers aes256-cbc
and I tried to connect with an older client that did not have this algorithm.

Another possibility is that the server is configured to use only PubkeyAuthentication and PasswordAuthentication is disabled. Have a look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and expect to see a line that look like this:
PasswordAuthentication yes
If that line says "no", then it looks like you need to construct a public and private key for this host