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Currently I can only login to my remote linux via the "ubuntu" user account, without a password (via SSH authentication). I have another user configured on the machine, and if I try to login with its username + password I get

Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available

How do I configure this user to accept user/pass authentication?

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I suspect that your sshd is configured to allow access via public key authentication and to disallow access via password.

There are a couple of thiongs that you can do. The better option is to generate a key-pair for the new account and to copy the public key to your remote host ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. You can use ssh-keygen or puttygen etc to generate the keys.

Alternatively you can enable sshd password authentication. Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and ensure that the PasswordAuthentication directive is set to yes

PasswordAuthentication  yes

Save the file and restart sshd and you should then be able to use passwords.

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  • I'd like to use mRemote as my SSH client, and as far as I can tell, it doesn't support authentication based on key-pairs. This is why I wanted to setup user/pass authentication. – ripper234 Feb 20 '11 at 12:33
  • I have mRemote configured to use PuTTY as the ssh client. This then allows me to use Pageant to store the keys and login using them. – Iain Feb 20 '11 at 12:41
  • Cool. Now a followup: superuser.com/questions/248091/… – ripper234 Feb 20 '11 at 12:48

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