On Saturday, August 10, 2024 2:43 PM, Chris Green wrote: >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. True, but you can use patterns to account for that. Put the explicit hosts first. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
