Input password for putty pscp

Question

I'm trying to execute below command using Putty pscp tool.

pscp -v -pw mypassword "X:\data\temp*" root@172.x.x.x:\tmp\data

I'm getting following error.

Fatal: Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available

I have to pass user name and password. And on target system I don't have much of control.

Could anybody point out what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Changed ... PermitRootLogin no ... PasswordAuthentication no ...

To

...
PermitRootLogin     yes
...
PasswordAuthentication  yes

And it worked!