In your ssh configuration, specify something like PreferredAuthentication "hostbased,publickey" this will skip trying to use the methods called keyboard-interactive and password.
You can give this flag on the ssh commandline, too. read the ssh(1) and ssh_config(5) manpages for more information. Jeff
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