Re: Git SSH Authentication

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 11, 2012, 10:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_hxUDx8M+JpiDguUETkUhfQzmpHj-s6++BXrknGRMR7vg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vty2xn6tl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Common causes of pubkey access fail:
>>
>>   - wrong pubkey being offered: if you are using ssh-agent, make sure
>> you have 'ssh-add'ed the key you want to offer.  Confirm with 'ssh-add
>> -l'
>
> A failure related to this I saw is to have (too) many keys in ssh-agent,
> and running ssh without telling it which exact key to use.  The client
> tries each key in turn and the server rejects the connection attempt after
> seeing too many keys tried.  "ssh -v" is useful to diagnose this mode of
> failure, and an entry in ~/.ssh/config like:
>
>    Host example.com
>        User myusernameoverthere
>        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-for-example.com
>
> would fix it.

Interesting... I didn't know this, so I checked man sshd_config looking for exactly how many keys it would fail after. The setting seems to be MaxAuthTries, and defaults to 6.

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Sitaram