I'm testing the IaaS part of Windows Azure and I have successfully deployed various Virtual Machine instances by means of the REST API. The XML body of the POST request for launching the VM is the following:
<Deployment xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><Name>Azure</Name><DeploymentSlot>Production</DeploymentSlot><Label>Azure IM created VM</Label><RoleList><Role i:type="PersistentVMRole"><RoleName>IMVMRole</RoleName><OsVersion i:nil="true"/><RoleType>PersistentVMRole</RoleType><ConfigurationSets><ConfigurationSet i:type="LinuxProvisioningConfigurationSet"><ConfigurationSetType>LinuxProvisioningConfiguration</ConfigurationSetType><HostName>AzureNode</HostName><UserName>user</UserName><UserPassword>Prueba+1111</UserPassword><DisableSshPasswordAuthentication>false</DisableSshPasswordAuthentication></ConfigurationSet><ConfigurationSet i:type="NetworkConfigurationSet"><ConfigurationSetType>NetworkConfiguration</ConfigurationSetType><InputEndpoints><InputEndpoint><LocalPort>22</LocalPort><Name>SSH</Name><Port>22</Port><Protocol>TCP</Protocol></InputEndpoint></InputEndpoints></ConfigurationSet></ConfigurationSets><Label>Azure IM created VM</Label><OSVirtualHardDisk><MediaLink>https://XXXXXXX.blob.core.windows.net/vhds/0b11de9248dd4d87b18621318e037d37__RightImage-Ubuntu-12.04-x64-v13.4.vhd</MediaLink><SourceImageName>0b11de9248dd4d87b18621318e037d37__RightImage-Ubuntu-12.04-x64-v13.4</SourceImageName></OSVirtualHardDisk><RoleSize>Small</RoleSize></Role></RoleList></Deployment>
However, when I try to connect to the VM via SSH with Putty, it shows the following message when I try to authenticate via user/password (note that in the XML body I have specified that DisableSshPasswordAuthentication = false): "Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)".
Thank you so much to the whole stackoverflow community for your help
Regards
Patan