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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 things 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's "~/.ssh/authorized_keys" file. You can use ssh-keygen, 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, restart sshd (e.g. with systemctl restart ssh on systemd-based systems) 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, 2011 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.
    – user591
    Feb 20, 2011 at 12:41
  • Cool. Now a followup: superuser.com/questions/248091/…
    – ripper234
    Feb 20, 2011 at 12:48
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In first-time Linux user edit the sshd_config file in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Then you have to find 

# PermitRootLogin no

you have to remove the # and change it to yes 

PermitRootLogin yes

Ok now save it 

ctrl + x

then 

Y - yes

all the changes will be saved now not only that now you have to restart the service 

service sshd restart

Ok, check now you can connect through the ssh.

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    Explicitly adding root login to sshd has nothing to do with this particular question, and would add unnecessary risk if a person was to do this in an attempt to solve the problem (by allowing remote root login attempts where they were previously disallowed).
    – Jeff Schaller ♦
    Jul 25, 2019 at 17:56
  • Thank you @Jeff Schaller is there any other way to the selected user?
    – Thilina Dharmasena
    Jul 25, 2019 at 18:04
  • Notice that this particular question has an accepted answer; it appears that their configuration was not allowing password authentication as a method.
    – Jeff Schaller ♦
    Jul 25, 2019 at 18:08

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