VMware ESX SSH No Matching Cipher Found Error

Error Message
No matching cipher found: client aes256-cbc,aes128-cbc server 3des-cbc

Resolution
You can edit your Ciphers list to include 3des-cbc by doing the following:

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

at the end of the file you should see a line like:

Ciphers aes256-cbc,aes128-cbc

Change this line to:

Ciphers aes256-cbc,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc

Once the file has been updated run the following command to restart the sshd service.

service sshd restart

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