Bug#884096: openssh-client: "Too many authentication failures" with the 7th private key identity
On 2017-12-11 13:14:55 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The downgrade had no effect. But I've found the cause of the problem,
> which is in OpenSSH. What happened in the following: after the
> upgrade, I had to reboot. But in the mean time, I had added a new
> SSH private key identity (~.ssh/id_rsa-...), which was taken into
> account only after the reboot. A "ssh-add -l" shows the 7 identities,
> id_rsa-svn being the last one.
As a workaround, I can use a IdentityFile + IdentitiesOnly
combination.
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