On Sat, 2021-11-20 at 15:33 +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 2:32 PM Andreas Fournier > <andreas.fournier at runbox.com> wrote: > > > > 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? > > > > I got the same error once. > In my case the problem was ssh tried to log in with ssh keys before > giving a password prompt. Thanks, same for me. I had added a new key for a different server to the ssh client machine that got it over the limit. /Andreas