Dear WeatherCat web spinners,
Mysteriously, my FTP client (
Yummy FTP Pro) started to be unable to SFTP to my web site hosted by GoDaddy. It generated the following error message:
Unable to negotiate host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22 no matching host key type found. Their offer ssh-dssI checked my hosting options, I didn't see anything I could change, so I did the usual trick of searching for the error message. That brought this discussion:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34208495/unable-to-negotiate-with-xx-xxx-xx-xx-no-matching-host-key-type-found-their-ofAccording to that source, the problem is:
The recent openssh version deprecated DSA keys by default. You should suggest to your GIT provider to add some reasonable host key. Relying only on DSA is not a good idea.The posting suggested a configuration change to allow the old key system to be used instead, but I wasn't able to make this work. I will contact GoDaddy technical support to see if they can fix this, but in the meantime I can't use SFTP to access my account. My only choice would be to -
of all things - fall back on the less secure FTP.
Sadly it is a example of never having enough time to implement a change in such a way as everyone remains on the same page, and as a result, producing exactly the opposite of the intended effect: users forced to use less secure protocols in order to get their work done.
Oh well, Edouard