Having two types of authentication methods

So.. I can login to my ubuntu machine using private-public key method.

But now I need to have a user with regular username - password login method.

If I try to simply login with username (without specifying RSA key) in putty, I get Disconnected: no supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey) error.

How to fix this?

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2 Answers

In the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config, change the line

#PasswordAuthentication yes

to

PasswordAuthentication yes

and resart sshd:

service sshd restart

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You also may just run the given command into the terminal.

sed -i "s/PasswordAuthentication no/PasswordAuthentication yes/" /etc/ssh/sshd_config

N.B. Here "PasswordAuthentication no" replace with "PasswordAuthentication yes"

So before run the command you may check using "sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config" what has the value PasswordAuthentication.

Sometime it is written as "#PasswordAuthentication yes"

Then command will be sed -i "s/#PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication yes/" /etc/ssh/sshd_config

And for after Ubuntu 14.04

sudo systemctl restart ssh

Or for before Ubuntu 14.04

sudo service ssh restart

Hope this will work for you.

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