On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 10:34:45AM -0400, rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. > Tes, OK, but that means for all my default destinations I have to set the PreferredAuthentications, plus any that I happen to want to connect to occasionally. There's 20+ hosts in config at the moment. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
