ssh: Received disconnect from 127.0.0.1: 2: Too many authentication failures for XXXX

[Jonathan Marsden]

Lars,

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:

> On 06/28/2013 09:19 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:

>> Is there an existing Launchpad bug report for this issue?  If not, and
>> the issue can be confirmed, let's get one opened.

> Which package should it be filed against?

Either gnome-keyring or openssh-client, depending on which is at fault
:)

> I don't think it is anything to do with ssh-add itself, which is part of
> openssh-client.  This looks like something else misbehaving.

  unset GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL GNOME_KEYRING_PID

and retest.  If that makes the issue go away, the issue is with
gnome-keyring.

You could even do

  sudo apt-get purge gnome-keyring

and then reboot and retest, if you prefer.

Jonathan
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