Fixing Blogger SFTP errors
Some time ago, I realized that running my own blogging software sucked. I had used and then screwed up somehow: Movable Type, PyBloxsom, and textpattern. It worked, mostly, until the flood of comment spam started and I got frustrated. I'll let someone else run the software, and I'll make the updates.
What I did find out that is that Blogger's SFTP service did not work "out of the box" with my new linux box. I kept getting this error:
magenta sshd[14412]: Did not receive identification string from 64.233.166.195
It turns on that the magic incantation that got it to work was the following change to my sshd_config:
# Change to yes to enable tunnelled clear text passwords
PasswordAuthentication yes
The default value was set to no. Once I did that, Blogger worked just dandy.
What I did find out that is that Blogger's SFTP service did not work "out of the box" with my new linux box. I kept getting this error:
magenta sshd[14412]: Did not receive identification string from 64.233.166.195
It turns on that the magic incantation that got it to work was the following change to my sshd_config:
# Change to yes to enable tunnelled clear text passwords
PasswordAuthentication yes
The default value was set to no. Once I did that, Blogger worked just dandy.
posted by planetshwoop at
12:27 AM
3 Comments:
Hi Brian. What about WordPress? It's definately not the house of cards that MT is.
Thanks for the help. I would have never thought to change PasswordAuthentication.
Thanks for the information. It seems silly to have to enable that in order for sftp to work. It seems even more silly, however, that Blogger can't (as far as I can tell) use public key authentication.
On the other hand, I'm switching from Movable Type to Blogger for the same reason you apparently did. It'll feel great to not have the hassle of security patches, cumbersome upgrades, and all the other mundane work that comes with hosting one's own blog.
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