Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 18:08:27
Message-Id: 2224712.ElGaqSPkdT@lenovo.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem by Neil Bothwick
1 On Sunday, 26 December 2021 17:00:46 GMT Neil Bothwick 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 >
7 > > Yesterday, I updated 'openssh' :
8 > It sounds like the host may be running an old version of sshd that only
9 > offers ciphers that are now disabled by default in newer releases. You
10 > can get round this by enabling those ciphers for this host, with
11 > something like this in ssh_config
12 >
13 > Host aaaaa.bbbbbbbb.cc
14 > Ciphers +ssh-rsa
15
16 The initial error is about "no matching host key type", so the option needed
17 would be:
18
19 HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
20
21 After which another error may pop up, probably about Ciphers. ;-)

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>