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| It may help to check log file of your server to see an actual reason, it denied you an access. | It may help to check log file of your server to see an actual reason, it denied you an access. | ||
| - | **ryfthyfg** | + | ===== Server sent disconnect message type 2 (protocol error): "Too many authentication failures for root" ===== |
| + | This message is produced by an OpenSSH (or Sun SSH) server if it receives more failed authentication attempts than it is willing to tolerate. | ||
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| + | This can easily happen if you are using Pageant and have a large number of keys loaded into it, since these servers count each offer of a public key as an authentication attempt. This can be worked around by specifying the key that's required for the authentication in the [[ui_login_session|session configuration]]; WinSCP will ignore any other keys Pageant may have, but will ask Pageant to do the authentication, so that you don't have to type your passphrase. ((&puttydoccite)) | ||
| ===== Unable to use this private key file, Couldn't load private key, Key is of wrong type ===== | ===== Unable to use this private key file, Couldn't load private key, Key is of wrong type ===== | ||