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Force SSH client to use password authentication instead of public key

Thomas Eisenbarth
July 06, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

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
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This also works for Secure Copy:

scp -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no local.file user@host:/path/to/remote.file
Posted by Thomas Eisenbarth to makandra dev (2011-07-06 11:03)