Jonathan L Brown » Linux Experience http://www.jonathanlbrown.com Developer, Entrepreneur Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:33:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Too Many Authentication Failures: Too Many Pageant Keys http://www.jonathanlbrown.com/2010/05/09/too-many-authentication-failures-too-many-pageant-keys/ http://www.jonathanlbrown.com/2010/05/09/too-many-authentication-failures-too-many-pageant-keys/#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 17:18:28 +0000 jonathan http://www.jonathanlbrown.com/?p=36 Here was a frustrating situation: After setting up a key for my dev box, I couldn’t connect.  Putty and TortoiseSVN would die on an error of too many authentication failures.  There was no additional information on the server other than this error, and, if I connected from another system, things worked fine.

The secret here: I had six active keys in pageant.  I removed all but the key for my dev box, and now it works like a top.

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