Make SSH Ignore Key, When Logging On to a Fresh Box

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 17:38:28 +0530

Every now and then, I spin up a fresh vm.
And being a creature of habit, I use the same username on my play / experimental vms as my normal login.
So everytime I try to login to such a vm or pi, I get a Too many authentication failures error.

So to just get in and start working, I need to tell ssh to ignore my keys and try using passwords as the authentication mechanism.
Like so

ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no jason@ip-address-on-my-network

And then I can login and begin the process of locking everything down.

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Make SSH Ignore Key, When Logging On to a Fresh Box