Re: Unable to git pull

[Pierre Wieser <pwieser trychlos org>]

> > Is there any explanation to my disappointment ?
>
> The logs on the machine didn't provide a lot of information on this
> regard as the same error message "Too many authentication failures for
> pwieser" was listed in there as well. We could have probably bumped
> the logging level to see what was going on but the issue wasn't
> reproducible anymore. That said it seems that the error might have
> been caused by the client trying to authenticate with several
> different identities and reaching the MaxAuthTries value which is 6 by
> default. I see your log excerpt just list 3 tries before the
> successful one and that looks totally acceptable. Did the amount of
> identities you had on "~/.ssh" changed recently?

Well, yes, indeed.
I recently add two new keys for my own management needs.

> What's also curious is your client trying to authenticate with all the
> identities you have available even if the relevant IdentityFile value
> is set on your "~/.ssh/config" file:
>
>   Host git.gnome.org
>         IdentityFile id_rsa_gnome
>
> The problem with this is IdentityFile requires the full path to the
> private key file, look at man ssh_config for the variables you can
> use.
Maybe the final answer to the issue you have pointed out, and that I
myself observe for.. some time now (say, since my first Fedora desktop ?). 
Never read the man enough may be some sort of conclusion ;)
I'll get a try to that.
Thanks!

Regards
Pierre