> > Is there any explanation to my disappointment ? > > The logs on the machine didn't provide a lot of information on this > regard as the same error message "Too many authentication failures for > pwieser" was listed in there as well. We could have probably bumped > the logging level to see what was going on but the issue wasn't > reproducible anymore. That said it seems that the error might have > been caused by the client trying to authenticate with several > different identities and reaching the MaxAuthTries value which is 6 by > default. I see your log excerpt just list 3 tries before the > successful one and that looks totally acceptable. Did the amount of > identities you had on "~/.ssh" changed recently?
Well, yes, indeed. I recently add two new keys for my own management needs. > What's also curious is your client trying to authenticate with all the > identities you have available even if the relevant IdentityFile value > is set on your "~/.ssh/config" file: > > Host git.gnome.org > IdentityFile id_rsa_gnome > > The problem with this is IdentityFile requires the full path to the > private key file, look at man ssh_config for the variables you can > use. > Maybe the final answer to the issue you have pointed out, and that I myself observe for.. some time now (say, since my first Fedora desktop ?). Never read the man enough may be some sort of conclusion ;) I'll get a try to that. Thanks! Regards Pierre _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
