On Saturday, August 10, 2024 10:13 AM, Chris Green wrote: >I have several ssh keys in the ~/.ssh directory of my desktop machine. >As a result whenever I try to connect to a system which uses password >authentication I get the "Too many authentication failures" error. > >Yes, I know I can get round this by setting PreferredAuthentications but this is >rather a nuisance to have to do individually for all systems that use password >authentication. It also means that I have to do it for a 'casual' ssh access to a system >which I'm unlikely to access more than once. > >Is there any way around this problem? Have you looked into ~/.ssh/config? You can set per-host identify files for your keys. There is a Match attribute you may be able to use for patterns matching your causal use without having to specify individual hosts for other authentication methods. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
