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Three real SSH error lines stacked: Permission denied listing publickey, password and keyboard-interactive; Received disconnect port 22:2 Too many authentication failures; and the WARNING REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED banner

Common SSH Errors on macOS and What They Actually Mean

SSH errors are unusually good at pointing at the wrong thing. “Permission denied” reads like a password problem when it is usually a key problem, and “Too many authentication failures” sounds like you typed something……