[python-committers] SSH problems attempting to access hg.python.org

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Fri Oct 2 07:33:04 CEST 2015


What does `ssh-add -L` give? ssh basically throws keys at the server
until the server accepts it. The server has a limit of two attempts, so
if have more than two keys in your agent, problems result.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015, at 01:57, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> After getting some publickey errors from hg.python.org earlier, I'm
> now consistently getting "Too many authentication failures for hg".
> 
> I've checked my SSH keys, and they're validating against other
> services OK, so this appears to be a problem with hg.python.org
> specifically.
> 
> Could someone with the appropriate admin access take a look at the
> server and see what might be going on?
> 
> Regards,
> Nick.
> 
> P.S. Relevant public key fingerprint (in both MD5 and SHA256 format):
> 
> 2048 MD5:07:7b:9c:2f:f1:e4:bb:f7:a2:2a:c9:f1:2e:6d:f1:ec
> ncoghlan at llamedos (RSA)
> 2048 SHA256:kz2qX96utlWroXvMf75x2WFiL0o2SEeHnX7eJStd3wc ncoghlan at llamedos
> (RSA)
> 
> -- 
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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