# Unable to SSH: never prompts for password

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/unable-to-ssh-never-prompts-for-password/15336>\
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [February 26, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/unable-to-ssh-never-prompts-for-password/15336 "2024-02-26T15:52:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Prune2372](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@Prune2372](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Prune2372)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/unable-to-ssh-never-prompts-for-password/15336/1 "2024-02-26T15:52:23Z")

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Hi, I’ve recently received my Umbrel Home. One of the firs things I did was try to ssh into it with `ssh -t umbrel@umbrel.local`. It never prompts me for a password. When ssh-in with verbose mode I see that it tries to ssh using my private keys.

Anyone else experienced this?

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**Author:** ![Prune2372](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@Prune2372](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Prune2372)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/unable-to-ssh-never-prompts-for-password/15336/2 "2024-02-26T16:23:43Z")

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I was able to figure it out. I edited my `~/.ssh/config` file and add this:

```sh
Host umbrel
    HostName umbrel.local
    User umbrel
    PreferredAuthentications password
    PubkeyAuthentication no

```

Afterwords I ssh-ed using `ssh umbrel`.