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How to fix SSH 'Too many authentication failures' — IdentitiesOnly
Your agent holds many keys and the server rejects you before SSH ever tries the right one.
Every flag and config keyword was checked against the OpenSSH 9.6 man pages, and the config examples were parsed for real with ssh -G.
Host web
HostName example.com
User deploy
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
IdentitiesOnly yes
