I have the exact error on my Jenkins 2.7.4 server connecting to Windows Server 2012 R2 with OpenSSH-Win64 with public key only authentication. I have successfully tested connection to other Windows machines with the exact version of OpenSSH-Win64 with public key only authentication, which gave me a CMD prompt.
Settings changed in sshd_config are: PubkeyAuthentication yes PasswordAuthentication no I installed openssh via: choco install win32-openssh -y Then i tried the x86 version of the same OpenSSH, and yet the error was the same. According to this post: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/SSH+slaves+and+Cygwin > Cygwin comes with OpenSSH server, which works well with SSH Slaves plugin > <https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/SSH+Slaves+plugin>. This is > one of the recommended way of controlling Windows slaves from Jenkins, if > you don't mind the added effort of installing Cygwin and sshd > <http://www.noah.org/ssh/cygwin-sshd.html>. > I have yet to succeed, but i will post back soon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/fb4982e5-a9a9-4ad6-9db9-5a3ac594d616%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
