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Force ssh to use Password instead of Public Key

27 June 2011 10,192 views 5 Comments Permanent Link

Here is what you should pass to ssh so that it doesn’t attempt to authenticate using a Public Key.

ssh -o "PubkeyAuthentication no" user@server

I was getting the following error when trying to login to ssh to a Server.

Received disconnect from <IP>: 2: Too many authentication failures for root

I verbosed to see the errors and got the following:


debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: bijay@bijay
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Offering RSA public key: bijay@bijay
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Offering RSA public key: bijay@bijay
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Offering RSA public key: bijay@bijay
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Offering RSA public key: bijay@bijay
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Offering RSA public key: bijay@bijay
Received disconnect from : 2: Too many authentication failures for root

By Default because of the ssh config, it was trying to authenticate using Public Key (pubkey)

pixel Force ssh to use Password instead of Public Key

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  • BR

    Don’t put the quotes on “PubkeyAuthentication no”

  • BR

    Sorry, the command is correct syntax except there needs to be a space after the ssh. Alternately, you can use PubKeyAthentication=no without quotes.

  • http://bijayrungta.com/ Bijay Rungta aka @rungss

    Yep, You are right. Seems the space was removed when writing this Post, Have fixed that. PubKeyAthentication=no should also work.