When I tried to log in to my router via SSH after several months of not doing so, I got the following error:
Unable to negotiate with 192.168.1.1 port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa
I found out after some searching that you can get around this error by using a specific option. However, after bypassing this first error, I still cannot log in because my publickey is denied. I made sure that the keys in LuCi were mine, and even added them again and restarted the router, but I still get permission denied.
I then tried enabling password logins for root, to no avail. I reset the password and tried again, nothing.
What could be causing this?
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Be sure to upgrade OpenWrt to the latest stable release as well as the SSH client.
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Delete saved keys on your PC. I have seen similar problem with old ssh-server, but there was 'ssh-dss', not 'ssh-rsa'.
ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa root@192.168.1.1
I found this online and it worked.
This is what was required of me to get into a switch:
ssh -o KexAlgorithms=diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 -o HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-dss -oCiphers=aes256-cbc example@x.x.x.x
Encryption is not my thing so I don't know why this is happening.
Here's where I found the solution.
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