I am trying to log in to a fresh installation of openSUSE Leap 42.2 on a Raspberry Pi. The setup if completely default, and there are no public keys stored on the pi.
When I try to log in via ssh root@192.168.1.56 I get an error:
Received disconnect from 192.168.1.56 port 22:2: Too many authentication failures
Connection to 192.168.1.56 closed by remote host.
Connection to 192.168.1.56 closed.
Using ssh -v reveals that lots of public keys are being offered:
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/robert/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Offering DSA public key: /home/robert/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Offering RSA public key: robert@XXX
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Offering RSA public key: robert@yyy
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Offering RSA public key: robert@zzz
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Offering RSA public key: backup-login@xxx
Which I assume count for an authentication attempt each and cause the server to stop talking to me.
Sure enough, when I log in from a different user account, the password prompt appears.
On the server the following error message appears
Dec 09 20:27:18 linux sshd[1020]: error: maximum authentication attempts exceeded for root from 192.168.1.52 port 35088 ssh2 [preauth]
To work around this tried to force password authentication as described at How to force ssh client to use only password auth?:
ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no root@192.168.1.56
which now lead to
Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
How can I get password-based login working in this situation?
