Bug#884096: openssh-client: "Too many authentication failures" with the 7th private key identity
Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
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Control: reassign -1 openssh-server 1:7.6p1-2 The "Too many authentication failures" error came from sshd, so this should have been in openssh-server, not openssh-client. I don't know the current status since as a workaround, I currently use IdentityFile + IdentitiesOnly on my current machines. But not every SSH client might have that. According to <https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/1263>, trying multiple public keys is legitimate.