GForge CVS/SSH Authentication Failures

Feb 26, 2008 · 1 min read · CVS GForge Java programming ssh ·

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Recently we had a problem connecting to our GForge CVS through SSH. We added the public RSA key to the GForge user, but because of wrong configuration on the client we tried to connect a couple of times with the wrong key. After a while the GForge CVS will return the following error:

Received disconnect from : 2: Too many authentication failures for

To solve this, simple ask a GForge administrator to edit the GForge user, and press the "Save" button without changing anything. You will be able to reconnect immediately after the administrator has pressed "Save".