20 Nov
2021
20 Nov
'21
10:02 a.m.
I just came across something strange with my fully updated Centos7 server. When I try to ssh into it the same way I've always done I get "Too many authentication failures". This just came out of the blue. I'm using the root account and a password. But in my sshd_config it still reads #MaxAuthTries 6 Which I think is the default.
From the console I can log in fine and when I look in the logs for sshd
I can just see the the attempts I just made, that are less than six and no previous denied attemps.
Any clues what's going on?