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2026-01-29 2026-04-02 (current)
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 =====

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