How to fix "ssh permission denied please try again error" in git configuration on Windows

Question

I am trying to configure git server and client on two local windows machines. I installed git software on both the machines. Enabled openssh server optional feature on the server and created a bare repository on the server. Then tried to clone the server's bare repository on the client, it asked me the password of the server's user but, even after I entered the right password it was giving the below error message.

Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

I have tried to figure out the cause for the error. After browsing for this error on google I got to know that it is ssh not configured properly. One suggestion I found was to check if ssh working properly without git involvement using the command

ssh -Tv [email protected], it also failed by giving below error message:

$ ssh -Tv [email protected]

OpenSSH_7.7p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2p  14 Aug 2018
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to 10.208.27.100 [10.208.27.100] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_rsa type 0
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_xmss type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.7
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_for_Windows_7.6
debug1: match: OpenSSH_for_Windows_7.6 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug1: Authenticating to 10.208.27.100:22 as 'ram-pc1'
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: [email protected] MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: [email protected] MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:27NSp0TODhiZ68zbYLvsaqPNMp8tE0ZanMeoeQp+u14
debug1: Host '10.208.27.100' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521>
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: RSA SHA256:2KyRU6bbWWkN+IBYN6xiuWQuHl0pKL6Cim6K4/6RBek /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Trying private key: /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Trying private key: /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: Trying private key: /c/Users/Admin/.ssh/id_xmss
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: password
[email protected]'s password:
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
Permission denied, please try again.
[email protected]'s password:
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
Permission denied, please try again.
[email protected]'s password:
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

Below is my ssh_config file settings:

#Port 22
#AddressFamily any
#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
#ListenAddress ::

#HostKey __PROGRAMDATA__/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
#HostKey __PROGRAMDATA__/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
#HostKey __PROGRAMDATA__/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
#HostKey __PROGRAMDATA__/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key

# Ciphers and keying
#RekeyLimit default none

# Logging
#SyslogFacility AUTH
#LogLevel INFO

# Authentication:

#LoginGraceTime 2m
#PermitRootLogin prohibit-password
#StrictModes yes
#MaxAuthTries 6
#MaxSessions 10

#PubkeyAuthentication yes

# The default is to check both .ssh/authorized_keys and .ssh/authorized_keys2
# but this is overridden so installations will only check .ssh/authorized_keys
AuthorizedKeysFile  .ssh/authorized_keys

#AuthorizedPrincipalsFile none

# For this to work you will also need host keys in %programData%/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
#HostbasedAuthentication no
# Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
# HostbasedAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts no
# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
#IgnoreRhosts yes

# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
#PasswordAuthentication yes
#PermitEmptyPasswords no

#AllowAgentForwarding yes
#AllowTcpForwarding yes
#GatewayPorts no
#PermitTTY yes
#PrintMotd yes
#PrintLastLog yes
#TCPKeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
#PermitUserEnvironment no
#ClientAliveInterval 0
#ClientAliveCountMax 3
#UseDNS no
#PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
#MaxStartups 10:30:100
#PermitTunnel no
#ChrootDirectory none
#VersionAddendum none

# no default banner path
#Banner none

# override default of no subsystems
Subsystem   sftp    sftp-server.exe

# Example of overriding settings on a per-user basis
#Match User anoncvs
#   AllowTcpForwarding no
#   PermitTTY no
#   ForceCommand cvs server

I have spent a lot of time to resolve this error. But not succeeded. Please help in solving this problem. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Check the content of ~ram-pc1/.ssh/authorized_keys on the 10.208.27.100 server side: it should include your public key.

Said public key should be an rsa one (without passphrase for now) named C:\Users\Admin\.ssh\id_rsa.pub (and id_rsa for the private) key, generated with ssh-keygen -t rsa -P ""