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XK0-006 · Question #76
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Question
An administrator has generated an RSA SSH key pair to log in to a remote server. After copying the public key and attempting to log in, the administrator sees the following message: [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey,password) After seeing the message, the administrator attempts to connect using ssh -v [email protected] and notices the following debug output: debug1: send_pubkey_test: no mutual signature algorithm Which of the following actions should the administrator take first to remediate this issue?
Options
- AIssue systemctl restart sshd on the local server.
- BCreate a new key pair by running ssh-keygen -t ecdsa.
- CSet PermitRootLogin yes in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.
- DUpdate permissions on the /home/admin/.ssh directory to 700 on the remote server.
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