# ssh connection failed: Failed to find any acceptable way to authenticate"}

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-connection-failed-failed-to-find-any-acceptable-way-to-authenticate/37471>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** ee\
**Created:** [December 15, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-connection-failed-failed-to-find-any-acceptable-way-to-authenticate/37471 "2022-12-15T13:02:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nw4\_Tester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nw4\_Tester](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nw4_Tester)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-connection-failed-failed-to-find-any-acceptable-way-to-authenticate/37471/1 "2022-12-15T13:02:34Z")

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Hi all,

I created my own custom EE to use to connect to cisco ios and iosxr. But it always fail  
with no acceptable way to authenticate. Any one have any what i am doing wrong ?

I need to send out email based on router show run.

Error:

TASK [show run on remote devices] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*20:49:32

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fatal: [sandbox]: FAILED! =\> {“changed”: false, “msg”: “ssh connection failed: Failed to find any acceptable way to authenticate”}

Below are the files i used to create the custom EE.

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**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-connection-failed-failed-to-find-any-acceptable-way-to-authenticate/37471/2 "2022-12-16T18:20:19Z")

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Hi! thanks for your detailed post. did you add an SSH credential in AWX (and attach to job template) that this job can use to connect to your cisco hosts?

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**Author:** ![Nw4\_Tester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nw4\_Tester](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nw4_Tester)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-connection-failed-failed-to-find-any-acceptable-way-to-authenticate/37471/3 "2022-12-17T03:46:57Z")

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Hi,

Thank you for the reply.

The template was working nicely with another EE which I downloaded from another user here.

But I needed the email function and was trying to create my own Ee and adding community.general.

My own EE has this error only.