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Too many authentication failures Received disconnect: Too many authentication failures
Linux · layer 6, Platform & cloud
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Directly related (12)
perl: warning: Setting locale failed / bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale
Your session asks for a locale (often forwarded by SSH from your Mac/PC) that isn’t generated on the server.
client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe (SSH session drops when idle)
The SSH connection was cut — usually an idle timeout on a NAT router, firewall or the server, sometimes a network change.
IDX20803: Unable to obtain configuration from: 'https://login.example.com/.well-known/openid-configuration'
The OpenID Connect / JWT bearer middleware couldn’t download the identity provider’s metadata, so it can’t validate tokens or red…
Git: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
SSH authentication to GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket failed — no key, wrong key, or the key isn’t added to your account.
Bearer error="invalid_token": IDX10223: Lifetime validation failed. The token is expired / IDX10501: Signature validation failed
ASP.NET Core’s JwtBearer middleware rejected the token — expired (IDX10223), signature key not found (IDX10501/IDX10503), or wron…
AWS Cognito: NotAuthorizedException: Incorrect username or password
Cognito rejected the sign-in — wrong credentials, a disabled user, an auth flow not enabled on the app client, or an expired refr…
Azure CLI: Please run 'az login' to setup account / No subscription found
The Azure CLI has no signed-in account (or its token expired), or the account has no subscriptions.
WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! (ssh host key changed)
The server’s SSH host key differs from the one saved in ~/.ssh/known_hosts — usually because the server was rebuilt or the IP was…
DefaultAzureCredential failed to retrieve a token from the included credentials / ManagedIdentityCredential authentication unavailable
The Azure SDK tried every credential source (env vars, workload identity, managed identity, CLI…) and none worked.
Firebase Auth: auth/invalid-credential (auth/wrong-password, auth/user-not-found, auth/invalid-login-credentials)
Firebase rejected the email/password sign-in — wrong password, no such user, or a provider credential that’s malformed/expired.
WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! Permissions 0644 for 'key.pem' are too open
SSH refuses to use a private key that other users can read; it must be readable only by you (chmod 600).
Google Cloud: Error: Could not load the default credentials. Browse to https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started
The Google client library found no Application Default Credentials (ADC) on this machine or environment.
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bash: command not found
The shell can’t find an executable with that name in any directory on your PATH.
ssh: connect to host x port 22: Connection refused
The server answered, but nothing is listening on the SSH port — sshd isn’t running, it uses another port, or a firewall actively…
ssh: connect to host x port 22: Connection timed out
SSH packets get no reply — a firewall/security group drops them, the server is off, or the IP is wrong.
Error: socket hang up / read ECONNRESET
The other side closed the TCP connection abruptly while your client was still using it.
ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Connection timed out
Outbound SSH on port 22 is blocked (firewall, corporate or public Wi-Fi).
kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
The SSH connection was closed before the handshake — server overload, rate limiting, or a proxy/firewall interfering.
Azure AD (Entra ID): AADSTS700016 Application not found in the directory
The client ID in your sign-in request doesn’t exist in the tenant you’re authenticating against.
HTTP 401 Unauthorized
The request has no valid authentication credentials — you need to log in or send a valid token.
JWT Expired / Invalid Token
The JSON Web Token sent with the request is expired, malformed or signed with a different key, so the API rejects it (usually wit…
Git: ! [rejected] … (fetch first) — error: failed to push some refs
The remote branch has commits you don’t have locally, so Git refuses to overwrite them. Pull (merge or rebase) first, then push.
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
You ran a Git command outside a Git working tree.
Linux: Permission denied
Your user (or the service user) lacks read/write/execute permission on a file, directory or one of its parents.
OAuth 2.0 Error: invalid_grant
The authorization code, refresh token or credentials sent to the token endpoint are invalid, expired, already used or were issued…
API Error: Invalid API Key / Incorrect API key provided
The API didn’t recognise the key sent with the request — it’s wrong, revoked, from another environment, or sent in the wrong plac…
Azure AD (Entra ID): AADSTS50076 / AADSTS50079 — multi-factor authentication required
A Conditional Access policy requires MFA, but the sign-in flow (often a script, legacy client or ROPC password grant) can’t compl…
remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'https://github.com/x/y.git/' not found
GitHub/GitLab says the repository doesn’t exist — or you lack access to a private repo.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/x/y.git/'
HTTPS authentication to the Git host failed — wrong or expired credentials, or a password used where a token is required.
remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.
GitHub no longer accepts account passwords for Git over HTTPS.
Host key verification failed. fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
SSH doesn’t trust the server’s host key — first connection in a non-interactive environment, or the key changed.
! [remote rejected] … (refusing to allow a Personal Access Token to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/x.yml` without `workflow` scope)
Your token can’t modify GitHub Actions workflow files without the workflow scope.
ReplyError: NOAUTH Authentication required.
The Redis server requires a password (or ACL user) but the client didn’t authenticate.
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY
apt can’t verify a repository’s signature because the repo’s signing key isn’t installed (or has expired/rotated).
SELinux is preventing ... / avc: denied { read } for pid=... (permission denied despite correct permissions)
SELinux blocked the access — file permissions look fine, but the file’s security context or a boolean doesn’t allow the service t…
AADSTS50053: Your account is locked (Smart Lockout) / sign-in blocked due to suspicious activity
Too many failed sign-ins (or sign-ins from a malicious IP) triggered Entra Smart Lockout.
Azure: AuthorizationFailed — The client does not have authorization to perform action
The signed-in identity (user, service principal or managed identity) lacks an Azure RBAC role for that action on that scope.
npm ERR! code E401 — Unable to authenticate, need: Basic realm / Incorrect or missing password
The registry rejected your credentials — missing, expired or wrong auth token.
npm ERR! code ENEEDAUTH — need auth This command requires you to be logged in
npm needs credentials (publishing, private packages) but none are configured for that registry.
npm ERR! code EOTP — This operation requires a one-time password from your authenticator
Your npm account has 2FA for writes and no one-time password was supplied.
denied: Your authorization token has expired. Reauthenticate and try again. (Amazon ECR)
Docker’s login to Amazon ECR has expired — ECR tokens last 12 hours, so pushes and pulls fail until you log in again.
UnrecognizedClientException: The security token included in the request is invalid
The access key or session token isn’t recognised — wrong/deleted key, a session token missing for temporary credentials, or a reg…
user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Your account isn’t allowed to use sudo.
AADSTS65001: The user or administrator has not consented to use the application
The app needs permissions that haven’t been granted for this user or tenant.
Key Vault: (Forbidden) The user, group or application does not have secrets get permission on key vault
The caller authenticated but has no permission on the vault — missing access policy or RBAC role, or the vault’s firewall blocks…
AWS: Unable to locate credentials / Could not load credentials from any providers
The AWS CLI/SDK found no credentials in any place it looks — env vars, profile files, SSO cache or an instance/task role.
{"message":"Missing Authentication Token"} / No authorization token was found
The request reached a protected endpoint without credentials — or, on AWS API Gateway, it hit a path/method that doesn’t exist.
invalid_token: The access token is invalid (JsonWebTokenError: invalid signature / jwt malformed)
A token was sent but the server couldn’t verify it — bad signature, malformed, revoked, or issued for another audience or environ…
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