For eg:
In my machine the pwd prompt is always displayed as "Password"
$ scp sources/update_git.sh root@xx.213.xx.xx:/sds
Password:
But I need something like below
$ scp sources/update_git.sh root@xx.213.xx.xx:/sds
root@xx.213.xx.xx’s password:
>Solution :
Make sure password authentication is enabled on the server. In /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
PasswordAuthentication yes
On the client side, set password as the preferred method
ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password server2
It is sensible to add the keyboard-interactive method to the list in case the server has PasswordAuthentication disabled
ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password,keyboard-interactive server2
I ended up adding the following to my .ssh/config:
Host *
ServerAliveInterval 120
VerifyHostKeyDNS yes
PreferredAuthentications publickey,password,keyboard-interactive