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...g ReportedBy: wmertens at gentoo.org Hi, When using Commercial SSH to connect to OpenSSH, it can happen that a user has many keys and this results in a failure to log in due to "Too many authentication failures". The problem is documented at http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/puttydoc/Chapter10.html#10.5 : 10.5 "Server sent disconnect message type 2 (SSH_DISCONNECT_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 w...