I am new to My Cloud and am trying to setup SSH. I have enabled it. My setup requires a fixed IP address, and that is working. But when I try to use SSH: $ ssh sshd@192.168.2.202 Unable to negotiate with 192.168.2.202: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-dss What does that mean?

For future searchers… It seems the WD only offers a low-security SSH connection. I was using mintty, which uses OpenSSH. They have disabled DSA keys: http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html That page explains why, and what to do about it. OpenSSH 7.0 and greater similarly disables the ssh-dss (DSA) pu…

Setting up SSH access on Ultra

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud EX2

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If anyone out there is still looking for a quick SSH fix, you could use this package made by a user jayp and install it. Here’s his post, with the sshHostKey update:

Otherwise, you’ll have to continue typing this lengthy ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss sshd@ command to do so.