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## Background
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I was trying to debug a service over `ssh` that offered password-only
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authentication, but I couldn't seem to get the `ssh` client to prompt me for the
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password.
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It looked something like this (skip ahead to the conclusion if you're pressed
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for time):
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## Troubleshooting
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```shell
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λ ssh root@[redacted]
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Unable to negotiate with [redacted] port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa
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```
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But the same command was working just fine for my coworker.
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I took a closer look with `ssh -v root@[redacted]`, but nothing jumped-out at
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me. Maybe it's something with *my* `ssh` configuration; let's remove that
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variable:
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```shell
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λ ssh -F /dev/null root@[redacted]
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Unable to negotiate with [redacted] port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa
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```
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> Ah it looks like there's a way to set my preferred authentication method...
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> -- me
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```shell
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λ ssh -F /dev/null -o PreferredAuthentications=password root@[redacted]
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Unable to negotiate with [redacted] port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa
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```
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## Conclusion
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Well it turns-out that newer SSH clients disable the `ssh-rsa` public key
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signature algorithm because it depends on SHA-1, which is considered insecure.
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```shell
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λ ssh -V
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OpenSSH_9.0p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1p 21 Jun 2022
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```
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...and according to the `ssh -v` output, the server is running a pre-COVID(!!!)
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version of `ssh`:
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```
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debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version dropbear_2018.76
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```
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So if you don't have time to upgrade the SSH server, and you just want to
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connect, the following should work because we're *opting-into* the less secure
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option:
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```shell
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λ ssh -o HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa root@[redacted]
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```
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