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.