


These monitors check the log files looking for failed attempts and add filters to block IP addresses that have too many failures (the number is configurable and independent from the sshd config).

You can also set the user so you don't need to enter it on the command line and shorten long FQDN's too, see this example: host short ssh -i /path/to/id_rsa Specify Host/IdentityFile pair in /home/USER/.ssh/configĪ single host in the config file should look something like this: Host.This situation can be solved by these ways: It happens so that Your client is trying to authenticate with all possible keys stored in /home/USER/.ssh/. "Too many Authentication Failures for user root" means that Your SSH server's MaxAuthTries limit was exceeded.
