On Sat, 2021-11-20 at 11:46 +0100, Andreas Fournier wrote: > 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. This got me wondering what is the best practice for a situation where you have a machine with more than five keys on file in able to ssh to different servers. But you would also like to ssh with password to an other set of servers. /Andreas