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SSH Agent breaks username/password SSH Authentication
Starting recently, 1Password broke SSH for servers that use basic username/password authentication. These servers do not have credentials in 1Password and I don't want to store them in 1Password.
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floris_1P
1Password Team
1Password TeamYou're getting this error because ssh first tries to authenticate with every key you have in the agent, and only then falls back to username/password authentication method. But also: the default SSH server configuration states that you only have 6 authentication tries in total, which can be a problem if you have too many keys in the agent.
The good news is that you can control which authentication mechanism gets used first, using the PreferredAuthentications SSH config directive. For example, if certain hosts only support username/password auth, you can disable publickey authentication for these hosts and have them only use password authentication:
Host somehost
PreferredAuthentications password
