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Jamie Hutber
Jamie Hutber

Reputation: 28106

Server sent disconnect message type 2 (protocol error): "Too many authentication failures for root" Windows 7

Yesteryday I was trying to get github working with a putty private key.

Obviously I did something naughty as now I can't connect to my own server (Ubuntu, external) using TortoiseGit and the previously working .pkk file. 

 server sent disconnect message type 2 (protocol error): "Too many authentication failures for root"

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Whilst trying to set up github I started ssh via eval "ssh-agent- -s" and then proceded to obviously fill up something with failures.

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Who knew that you were meant to use ssh -T git:@github.com and not your github email address.

How can I now connect to my server and push my git repo?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 10740

Answers (1)

real_yggdrasil
real_yggdrasil

Reputation: 1263

This problem occurred for my when I tried to push on a repo while the push-url was not correct in sourcetree. For some reason sourcetree prompted login dials which I clicked away several times. Appearantly it caused a login with my username and a blank password and caused this mess (the same problem as in Jamie Hutber's question)

I solved this by pushing the commits via the terminal:

$ git push -u

It forces me to enter my password again. After that, all was well again.

Upvotes: 0

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