Re: "too many auth failures"?

To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost>
Subject: Re: "too many auth failures"?
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%oracle.com@localhost>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:21:08 -0500

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 03:06:35PM +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%oracle.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> >I also hate the fact that keyex is not re-tryiable.
> 
> Wouldn't that defeat having a retry counter?

The two issues are unrelated.  The SSHv2 initial key exchange cannot be
retried if it fails.  It can only really fail if you use the SSHv2 w/
GSS-API keyex, and it does happen, often because of Kerberos
configuration issues.

References:
- Re: "too many auth failures"?
  - From: Nicolas Williams
- Re: "too many auth failures"?
  - From: Peter Gutmann

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