Guacamole SSH Error – “The remote desktop server encountered an error and has closed the connection. Please try again or contact your system administrator.”

The root cause of the error in the title is due to Guacamole only supports ssh-dss and ssh-rsa, and both have been disabled in Ubuntu.

DSS was removed 8 years ago and it seems from my quick google that RSA has been deprecated, so hopefully Guacamole updates sometime soon.

In the meantime a workaround is adding HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa to the end of /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the Ubuntu machine and restart sshd.

Note: Please use at your own risk

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