Today I Learned

2022/11/01

ssh

That you can have too many SSH keys :)

When I got

Received disconnect from 256.256.256.256 port 22:2: too many authentication failures

I found the following: https://www.tecmint.com/fix-ssh-too-many-authentication-failures-error/ which advocated adding

Host *
   IdentitiesOnly yes

to reduce the number of tried keys