[ale] Weird ssh problem

[Pete Hardie]

Have you looked at the username as logged to make sure it's not using some
non-ASCII characters that just resemble normal ones?  I had some old work
issues with non-English character sets mucking up data validation


On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM Ben Coleman via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On 2/9/2025 6:16 PM, Ron via Ale wrote:
> > I'm still thinking it's out-dated ciphers in those apps.
>  > >
> > Both Filezilla and Putty are in the Universe repo, so *not* curated by
> > Canonical. Therefore there's a decent chance the latest cryptography
> > hasn't been included.
>
> I've installed putty and filezilla from the Ubuntu repos on a local
> Lubuntu machine, and I can connect to this machine with both of those.
> Assuming that Mint uses the same packages (his version of Mint is based
> on Ubuntu 24.04), that would seem to rule out a cipher problem.
>
> I may try to convince him to install VSCode, as VSCode with the Remote -
> SSH extension uses the standard ssh command, so it should work.
>
> I'm still puzzled why this isn't working, particularly since it says
> it's an invalid user, but the username looks correct in the logs.
>
> Ben
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