Espacio Mixto

If you are a System Administrator, you probably use MobaXterm as your go-to tool for its versatility: integrated X server, SSH client, SFTP file transfer, and more. However, since version 21.1, many users started experiencing a frustrating issue: MobaXterm requests the password three times before allowing access to certain hosts, particularly those running Solaris . In this article, I’ll explain why this happens and how to fix it permanently by adjusting your SSH configuration. The Problem: Why does MobaXterm ask for the password repeatedly? At first, you might think the SSH package was upgraded on the server side or that a system-wide OS upgrade changed the security policies. However, if you test the connection with other clients like Putty.exe , the issue does not occur. The root cause lies in the Preferred Authentications order. MobaXterm tries several methods that the server might not accept immediately, exhausting the allowed attempts before falling back to the interactive keyb...