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Authentication by key or password not supported

How to fix Authentication by key or password not supported while trying to login to remote servers?

Authentication by key not supported!
Authentication by password not supported

1. Manually login to the remote server and run the below command to check the password and key-based authentication.

root@remote-server ~]# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep -i "PubkeyAuthentication\|PasswordAuthentication"

PasswordAuthentication no
PubkeyAuthentication no

2. Change password or key-based authentication to yes according to the authentication method you are planning to use.

root@remote-server ~]# vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

PasswordAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes

root@remote-server ~]# systemctl restart sshd

3. After changing the authentication, try to login to the remote server from Ezeelogin and confirm it's working fine.

 

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