Force SSH client to use password authentication instead of public key

To test if you can connect to a host using password authentication and explicitly deny public key authentication:

ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no user@host

This also works for Secure Copy:

scp -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no local.file user@host:/path/to/remote.file

Thomas Eisenbarth

Last edit

2015-12-17

Arne Hartherz

License

Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.

Posted by Thomas Eisenbarth to makandra dev (2011-07-06 09:03)