From d47748c7bb05ff971a305c14cd142d6e6b0cd67a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ben Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:18:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the slightly odd "too many authentication attempts" message you get from OpenSSH if you overfill Pageant. git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@2757 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e --- doc/errors.but | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/errors.but b/doc/errors.but index 6c0054d6..51786b98 100644 --- a/doc/errors.but +++ b/doc/errors.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: errors.but,v 1.3 2003/01/30 10:19:05 simon Exp $ +\versionid $Id: errors.but,v 1.4 2003/01/31 23:18:44 ben Exp $ \C{errors} Common error messages @@ -73,6 +73,18 @@ have configured PuTTY to consider strong enough. See \k{config-ssh-encryption} for more information on this message. +\H{errors-toomanyauth} \q{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 willing to +tolerate. This can easily happen if you are using Pageant and have a +large number of keys loaded into it. This can be worked around on the +server by disabling public-key authentication or (for Sun SSH only) by +increasing \c{MaxAuthTries} in \c{sshd_config}. Neither of these is a +really satisfactory solution, and we hope to provide a better one in a +future version of PuTTY. + \H{errors-memory} \q{Out of memory} This occurs when PuTTY tries to allocate more memory than the system -- 2.11.0