Fixing "key type ssh-dss not in PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes" in Ubuntu

I recently came across the following error in the auth.log file of an ubuntu server.


Sep 11 11:44:34 unix sshd[5877]: userauth_pubkey: key type ssh-dss not in PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes [preauth]

I had configured passwordless ssh from a solaris machine to this server using DSA keys.
I later came to know that ubuntu allows passwordless ssh configuration for RSA keys only by default.

The fix for this is adding the following line /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and restarting the ssh service:

PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-dss


I know this is a very short article but I found it a point worth sharing.