Thanks for mentioning that! I had the exact same issue after upgrading to 0.105.x. Manually entering the port worked for me too.
I’ve done that “but obviously not”. Can somebody confirm that by following (as I have done) https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/hassio_debugging/#ssh-access-to-the-host you are able to stop the docker hyper-visor (sysctl docker stop) and still continuing with the SSH session?
You are correct. This will disconnect the session. What is it you are trying to do?
Hello,
from the last hassos update when i go in ssh 2222 and digit login the session is closed, so i cant go in host system shell. why?
Hi I just follow all the steps and im unable to SSH over port 22222 to the host
Also i consider use the good format for the Make sure when you are copying the public key to the root of the USB drive that you rename the file correctly to authorized_keys
The public key was generated by putty and i use the format correct!!!
Import from usb
Restart Server
When y tried to access via SSH over port 22222 i just receive the error “connection refused”
The error is totally clear my raspberry is not listening ssh over port 22222
So please what is the good procedure to access?
Let me chime in since someone may be jumping through the same hoops as I just did. I was struggling with my own errors for a while. For a moment I was led to believe that the port for host OS SSH is 2222. That was since when I was desperately trying and changed the port I was getting seamingly more promising server response on port 2222:
Couldn't agree a key exchange algorithm (available: [email protected],diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512)
To summarize: I simply didn’t properly follow the instructions regarding USB volume name and had the authorized_keys in subfolder CONFIG rather than having the volume named CONFIG. What added to my uncertainity was that that when you hit the [Supervisor] [System] [IMPORT FROM USB] there is no error or confirmation offered and the LOG looks the same no matter what:
20-05-16 04:06:28 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.hassos] Syncing configuration from USB with HassOS.
20-05-16 04:06:28 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.host.services] Restart local service hassos-config.service
When I finally got it right it worked! Now I can offer a way to verify and better yet perhaps how to import the key(s) w/o the USB wizardry:
The full file path in the host filesystem is:
/root/.ssh/authorized_keys
Logging into the ha (root) gives the answer whether the file was loaded:
login
cd /root/.ssh
ls -lart
cat authorized_keys
Now - let’s say you want to load the authorized_keys file where it belongs. SSH, right? Chicken and egg problem!? The SSH & Web Terminal https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-ssh may come to rescue here.
Good luck!
I don’t understand why. The instructions still say to import from a USB in the System tab of the supervisor side panel no? Also, it’s port 22222.
@DavidFW1960 Right: I mentioned the port 2222 as a one source of my confusion - since some posts mentioned 2222. I carefully crossed that port in my post not to add to the confusion but failed to mention port 22222. Thanks for adding that.
I clearly got past that USB upload. What I didn’t like about that approach using USB upload is not being able to see what happened. No success/error messaging to my knowledge. If you do everything right - it works. If you mess any single step you are in the dark.
That was the message I was trying to convey: One can verify the key got uploaded (once he knows where it goes) and there is also a way around that USB path. Would have been faster for me than looking for an available USB stick, renaming etc. Noticed some people were asking exactly this question. Thanks.
Restart is not needed. I did this a dozen times yesterday using the same usb config stick and a pi4 (yes, I did a fresh install a dozen times 
).
It worked every time.
How did you copy the key from puttygen?
Piggybackign on @mvana suggestion, for me the easiest way was the below: [I didn’t go the USB route because I don’t have an unused usb handy and below is more straight forward imo]
I accessed the HassOS through my proxmox console by using “login” command. Then all I did was to create /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file and pasted my public key. That’s it.
I had to reboot the HassOS to get the SSH to work.
Now I can access the host using “ssh [email protected] -p 22222” and then entering “login” command.
So folks…i am trying to help a fellow maker trying to get his setup running on HA.
Having copied/imported/setup the authorized_keys file on HASSOS you’ll see that i need to run “login” to get to an SSH prompt. Please note that i have applied all the available OS patches, updates.
pi@SmartiPi1:~ $ ssh [email protected] -p 22222
_ _ _ _ _
| | | | /\ (_) | | | |
| |__| | ___ _ __ ___ ___ / \ ___ ___ _ ___| |_ __ _ _ __ | |_
| __ |/ _ \| '_ ` _ \ / _ \ / /\ \ / __/ __| / __| __/ _` | '_ \| __|
| | | | (_) | | | | | | __/ / ____ \\__ \__ \ \__ \ || (_| | | | | |_
|_| |_|\___/|_| |_| |_|\___| /_/ \_\___/___/_|___/\__\__,_|_| |_|\__|
Welcome on Home Assistant command line.
For more details use 'help' and 'exit' to close.
If you need access to host system use 'login'.
ha > ls -la
Error: unknown command "ls" for "ha"
Did you mean this?
cli
dns
os
Run 'ha --help' for usage.
FATA[0000] Error while executing rootCmd: unknown command "ls" for "ha"
Did you mean this?
cli
dns
os
ha > login
# ls -la
drwx------ 4 root root 42 Apr 16 00:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 210 Apr 16 02:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 21 2018 .docker
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 6 22:15 .ssh
#
@tangowhisky37 I think you are doing fine. I don’t even see a question there(?). The “prompt” you are referring to is shell (ash) prompt while SSH is a protocol you are using to communicate with your system.
I see you have .ssh directory there as well. Assuming you have the “authorized_keys” file in place and it contains one or more public keys you may be establishing connection using the rsa key pair instead of password authentication. Please note the access permissions for the directory .ssh (700) and authorized_keys (500). sshd and especially vsftpd may be rejecting keys which are writable by others than owner. (My recent painful experience on CentOS 
).
# pwd
/root/.ssh
# ls -lart
drwx------ 4 root root 42 Apr 15 14:25 ..
drwx------ 2 root root 1024 May 16 02:55 .
-rw------- 1 root root 800 May 16 03:54 authorized_keys
Hey all,
not sure what im doing wrong.
HassOS 5.0 on rpi4
i keep getting this error: “no support auth message”
Steps taken;
formatted a 8gb USB stick, on my win10 machine to be NTFS
used putt key gen to create a new key
i then copied all the data from the public key (made sure to select all and copy)
opened Notepad++
pasted the values there
started with: ssh-rsa AAAAB3N
ended with: W517QuT1K7Q== rsa-key-20200727
set encoding to be ANSI
set edit EOL to be unix
saved the file as “authorised keys”
i then ejected the disk from widows
plugged into my RPI
went to supervisor and did “import from USB”
hw shows as the following:
opened putty
went to my ip and connected
approved the new connection certificate
then i went in as root and get this error
Did you ever get this sorted. I am going through this pain right now
EDIT: I just sorted it. Using info from here: https://www.configserverfirewall.com/windows-10/putty-server-refused-our-key/
I did FILE>>LOAD PRIVATE KEY
This generated the public key again. I then pasted it into notepad++ after having set the new document properties (SETTINGS>>PREFERENCES>>NEW DOCUMENT) to ANSI and UNIX/OSX
The difference to previous is the key was one long line now. I couldn’t even scroll to the end of it but it was all there. I uploaded this and it worked. Tedious!
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thanks for the info!
i ended up plugging in a screen and keyboard to get to it
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I had the same problem.
I am going to summarize what helped because it is a mix of everything stated here. It might be a documentation overkill but I hope I can help anyone with this.
What did the trick was following (With Windows):
Be sure to have notepad++ installed
change the preferences to following:
format your USB-Drive to FAT and call it CONFIG -> NTFS did NOT work for me even though the “official dev” instruction says it!
1 . Generate public + private key with puttygen and save them somewhere safe
- in Puttygen: File -> Load Private key
3.Highlight the Public key that was created in the text box and copy it to the clipboard.
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open notepad++ and paste it.
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Be sure that Encoding is ANSI and ELO by default
- in Notepad go to file -> Save as and change the filetype to All types and change the filename to authorized_keys
Otherwise notepad++ will save it as authorized keys.txt
7.safely remove the USB drive from your PC and put it into your Home assistant machine.
Open your Home assistant through the browser and go to Supervisor - System -> import from USB
- open Putty
Type in the Hostname and Port 22222
Select the private key we generated before and open.
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Thanks for this guideline !!!
Now I came across this and I have to admit that it is a perfect documentation. This is what the documentation should look like.
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Is there any other way to put the file to the server (SSH addon is installed)?
If you have the SSH add-on installed and working, you should also be able to use your favorite SFTP utility to copy files to the /config (or other) share. The SAMBA add-on also works.