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Getting "No suitable authentication method is supported. Supported method: keyboard interactive" error

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Getting "No suitable authentication method is supported. Supported method: keyboard interactive"

I am using rebex.net dll and trying to do sftp using public private key and without password.

Had generated key and kept it on unix server in .ssh/authorized_keys file.

When i am trying to login from my windows machine using generated public/private keys , i am getting above error.

I m able to connect to host but not able to login.
Regex.net.sftp dll v2.0.4086.0.

Any help/ guidance will be helpfull.

Applies to: Rebex SFTP

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Make sure the permissions of ~/.ssh and the authorized_keys file are correct. It should only be accessible by the owner:

chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

If the permissions are set properly and it still doesn't work, try logging in using a third party SFTP client (such as WinSCP) to determine whether the issue is at the client or server.

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Had checked permission.
I hv permission 776 (read write ) to both.
Still getting same error.
I am able to connect using putty.

What could be probably issue ??
Is it some permission needs to be given at server end for public private key authentication ?

Currently its working fine with user name and password.

But i hv change it to authenticate based on keys.

Any guidance will be helpfull.
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How to determine what type of authentication server supports ??

Currently i m able login using username and password but getting error when using username and key.
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Permission 766 is too permissive (it allows read by others) and would cause OpenSSH server to ignore your authorized_keys file. It really must only be readable by the owner, which means that permission 600 is required (and 700 for the directory). Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6377009/adding-public-key-to-ssh-authorized-keys-does-not-log-me-in-automatically and https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CSVnXnWLp9QJ:https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/doc/openssh-server/faq.html#3.14 for more details.
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To determine a list of authentication metods the server supports for a particular user, use Sftp.LogWriter to create a communication log of the Login method (as described at https://www.rebex.net/kb/logging/), and look for the line that lists "Allowed authentication methods". However, be aware that servers are actually allowed to announce authentication methods that don't work for this user (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4252#section-5.1 for details).
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