On Sun, 2011-12-06 at 01:09 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > Yes. Try > #ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password > and paste the output PreferredAuthentications doesn't seem to be a correct option. Nor does it show up in /etc/ssh/ssh_config or /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Perhaps this is because I used the empty string when creating keys? b.