Net.schmizz.sshj.userauth.UserAuthException: Existing authentication methods exhausted

for the first time by querying stackoverflow as well as using sshj. Other than the examples provided with sshj, I really did not find any good resources to help use this API.

I am trying to perform remote port forwarding using sshj and encountered this error.

Exception in thread "main" net.schmizz.sshj.userauth.UserAuthException: Exhausted available authentication methods

I tested auth with a VM, but without using a public key. I would use this to connect to an EC2 instance on which I know the login.

public void startRemotePortForwardingConnection(LocalPortForwarder.Parameters parameters) throws IOException{
    sshClient.connect(parameters.getLocalHost());
    this.connectionStatus = CONNECTED;
    System.out.print("Connected to localhost" + NEWLINE);

    try {
        sshClient.authPassword(this.username, this.password);
        System.out.print("Authorized with as user " + username + " with password " + password + NEWLINE);

        // the local port we should be listening on
        RemotePortForwarder.Forward localPortToListenOn = new RemotePortForwarder.Forward(parameters.getLocalPort());
        System.out.print("localPortToListenOn initialized" + NEWLINE);

        // where we should forward the packets
        InetSocketAddress socketAddress = new InetSocketAddress(parameters.getRemoteHost(), parameters.getRemotePort());
        SocketForwardingConnectListener remotePortToForwardTo = new SocketForwardingConnectListener(socketAddress);
        System.out.print("remotePortToForwardTo initialized" + NEWLINE);

        //bind the forwarder to the correct ports
        sshClient.getRemotePortForwarder().bind(localPortToListenOn, remotePortToForwardTo);
        System.out.print("ports bound together" + NEWLINE);

        sshClient.getTransport().setHeartbeatInterval(30);
        sshClient.getTransport().join();
    }
    finally {
        sshClient.disconnect();
    }
}

This may not be the best (or even right) way to do this.