Mention the slightly odd "too many authentication attempts" message you

get from OpenSSH if you overfill Pageant.

[originally from svn r2757]

diff --git a/doc/errors.but b/doc/errors.but
index 6c0054d6ee51a1c300faa5628f93ea153b3c36a3..51786b98c41b1ead712966f3ed2ed06aaf984c3f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/errors.but
+++ b/doc/errors.but
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-\versionid $Id: errors.but,v 1.3 2003/01/30 10:19:05 simon Exp $
+\versionid $Id: errors.but,v 1.4 2003/01/31 23:18:44 ben Exp $
 
 \C{errors} Common error messages
 
@@ -73,6 +73,18 @@ have configured PuTTY to consider strong enough.
 
 See \k{config-ssh-encryption} for more information on this message.
 
+\H{errors-toomanyauth} \q{Server sent disconnect message type 2
+(SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR): "Too many authentication failures for root"}
+
+This message is produced by an OpenSSH (or Sun SSH) server if it
+receives more failed authentication attempts than it is willing to
+tolerate.  This can easily happen if you are using Pageant and have a
+large number of keys loaded into it.  This can be worked around on the
+server by disabling public-key authentication or (for Sun SSH only) by
+increasing \c{MaxAuthTries} in \c{sshd_config}.  Neither of these is a
+really satisfactory solution, and we hope to provide a better one in a
+future version of PuTTY.
+
 \H{errors-memory} \q{Out of memory}
 
 This occurs when PuTTY tries to allocate more memory than the system