SSH Too many authentication failures error

I encountered this error while trying to ssh into one of my client's machine, one day.

$ ssh web
Received disconnect from 192.168.0.36 port 22:2: Too many authentication failures
Disconnected from 192.168.0.36 port 22

After searching around, I found an article that showed that, I can solve this issue just by adding one flag to my ssh command

$ ssh web -o IdentitiesOnly=yes 

sam@192.168.25.36's password: 

Now we're talking. I found out that the reason of this behavior is, I accidentally offered too many private keys to the server, causing the server to reach its maximum MaxAuthRetries, and terminate the connection. You can see this by using -v (for verbose) while doing ssh.

To solve this issue for each session, just add IdentitiesOnly=yes option to your ssh command

$ ssh -o IdentitiesOnly=yes web

To make it permanent, edit ~/.ssh/config file, and add below lines

$ cat >> ~/.ssh/config <<EOF

Host web

  IdentitiesOnly yes

EOF

And you are good to go :)