topic Re: Cloudguard SSH login in Cloud Firewall

Cloudguard SSH login

jamesdean-1 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:30:20 GMT

Hi we have some cloudguards deployed in AWS, they are working fine and SIC established etc, but SSH login does not work, there are local usernames and passwords, but when we try and SSH to them we get a message after entering username, that it only supports public key based login.

I pushed a new username password via one time script but still the same error occurs. how can we enable user based login?

Re: Cloudguard SSH login

the_rock — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:44:37 GMT

Try edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and ensure the PasswordAuthentication parameter is set to "yes". Save with :wq!, restart ssh service -> service sshd restart and try again.

Andy

Re: Cloudguard SSH login

Nir_Shamir — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:12:05 GMT

the default settings in AWS instances is to only login with a public key.

to change it run on the instances these commands:

Via CLISH:

set ssh server password-authentication yes

set ssh server permit-root-login yes

or from the one time script in SmartConsole:

clish -s -c 'set ssh server password-authentication yes'

clish -s -c 'set ssh server permit-root-login yes'

Re: Cloudguard SSH login

jamesdean-1 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:39:05 GMT

thats great that did the trick! thanks

Re: Cloudguard SSH login

the_rock — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:14:41 GMT

Good to know Nir!