From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7361F158086 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:20:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F4FA2BC046; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A704D2BC001 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Contact-TNet-Consulting-Abuse-for-assistance by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id 1BQJKWKC026052 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 13:20:32 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: From: Grant Taylor Organization: TNet Consulting Message-ID: Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 12:20:48 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c2e99c34-0226-400f-8194-13283efc3541 X-Archives-Hash: 38411ccfd2c744529d1e35ec31c35121 On 12/26/21 9:42 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > I want to login to a remote site using 'ssh'. > The response I get is "Unable to negotiate with port : > no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss". > Yesterday, I updated 'openssh' : Michael's pointing in the proper direction. Check out the OpenSSH Legacy Options page for more details. I've successfully used this information to log into Red Hat 5.x from the '90s. (Not contemporary RHEL.) Link - OpenSSH: Legacy Options - https://www.openssh.com/legacy.html Note: This works exceedingly well in the ssh client config file (~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/ssh_config). Using the config file means that anything that uses OpenSSH commands benefits from and inherits the configuration parameters; rsync, git, what have you. -- Grant. . . . unix || die