Common SSH Issues
Posted by ASO Admin on 05 February 2020 12:10 PM
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Secure Shell (SSH) provides secure access to the shell environment on your account. Below we've outlined some common issues you may encounter when using SSH, and how you can possibly resolve those issues. Common SSH Issues"Too many authentication failures for [user]."This message indicates that your login attempt was dropped after attempts to authenticate the session. You would likely see this due to having multiple identity keys (also known as private keys or DSA/RSA keys) in your .ssh directory. The SSH client will attempt to log in using each identity (private key) and then prompt for password authentication. However, the connection is dropped after a set number of bad login attempts (as specified by your server's security settings). The error message "Too many authentication failures for [user]" is displayed for this issue when using SSH in verbose (with the -v flag) mode. You may see instead the error message "Connection reset by peer" if you are not in verbose mode. Solutions for this issue include:
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