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| Restored revision 1744900042. Undoing revision 1769659029. (martin) (hidden) | 6.6.1 Issue 1682 – Support OpenSSH ssh-agent (martin) | ||
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| This message is produced by an OpenSSH (or Sun SSH) server if it receives more failed authentication attempts than it is willing to tolerate. | This message is produced by an OpenSSH (or Sun SSH) server if it receives more failed authentication attempts than it is willing to tolerate. | ||
| - | This can easily happen if you are using [[ui_pageant|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_settings]]; 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)) | + | This can easily happen if you are using an authentication agent (like [[ui_pageant|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_settings]]; WinSCP will ignore any other keys the agent may have, but will ask the agent to do the authentication, so that you don't have to type your passphrase. ((&puttydoccite)) |
| ===== [[key_is_of_wrong_type]] Unable to use this private key file, Couldn't load private key, Key is of wrong type ===== | ===== [[key_is_of_wrong_type]] Unable to use this private key file, Couldn't load private key, Key is of wrong type ===== | ||