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Too many authentication failures in StarNetSSH sessions

When starting an SSH session with X-Win32 to connect to your remote Linux or UNIX host, you may receive the following message in X-Win32’s Messages window.

Error message


Too many authentication failures for username

This error means that the remote sshd server has reached the maximum number of login attempts allowed per connection. There are a few reasons that this can happen, listed below.

Causes and solutions for this error

  • You received this error after entering an incorrect password in a password prompt
    • Solution: Either enter the correct password next time or find your correct password if you do not know it
    • You received this error but were never prompted for a password
  • Solution: You may have saved the wrong password in your SSH session in X-Config. In this case you will need to edit the session in X-Config and either correct the saved password or remove the saved password entry.

    Category:Errors
    Category:Sessions -> SSH



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