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i have set up public key authentication on my VPS, and disabled password logins. If someone tried to connect to my VPS, it right now says "Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)".

I don't feel very comfortable with people knowing that I got public key authentication set up, I want bad guys to know as little as possible about my secret hideout.

How do I stop openSSH from telling all my secrets?

Thanks

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I think it doesn't disclose. It's your ssh-client that prints which authentication methods it tried to use for authentication.

If I connect to a server, that has password authentication disabled, I still get Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). and from using the -v flag of ssh I see that the client indeed tried to authenticate with keyboard-interactive.

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