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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:03:26
Message-Id: YcmdcGnPTb3biBhx@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem by Michael
1 211226 Michael wrote:
2 > On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 11:42:41 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
3 >> I want to login to a remote site <aaaaa.bbbbbbbb.cc> using 'ssh'.
4 >> The response I get is "Unable to negotiate with <nnn.nnn.nnn.n> port
5 >> <nn>: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss".
6 >> Yesterday, I updated 'openssh' :
7 > It sounds like the host may be running an old version of sshd
8 > that only offers ciphers that are now disabled by default in newer releases.
9 > You can get round this by enabling those ciphers for this host,
10 > with something like this in ssh_config : 'HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa'.
11
12 Thanks to all the respondents : adding that line makes it work again.
13 I've made a note of the Ssh help site & updated by own nn too.
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