Fixing SSH Too Many Authentication Failures

Published: March 12, 2020 by Galuh D Wijatmiko

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Error :

Received disconnect from 192.168.33.14 port 22:2: Too many authentication failures

Background :

To Many Identities in SSH Client side

Fixing:

 ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes username@yourserver

Or You can add in Config SSH as Default

~/.ssh/config

Host *
    IdentitiesOnly=yes
    PreferredAuthentications=publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
    AddressFamily inet
    Protocol 2
    Compression yes
    ServerAliveInterval 60
    ServerAliveCountMax 20
    AddKeysToAgent yes
    StrictHostKeyChecking no
    UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
    CheckHostIP no
    UpdateHostKeys no
    LogLevel quiet