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Mention the slightly odd "too many authentication attempts" message you

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get from OpenSSH if you overfill Pageant.

[originally from svn r2757]
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\versionid $Id: errors.but,v 1.3 2003/01/30 10:19:05 simon Exp $
\versionid $Id: errors.but,v 1.4 2003/01/31 23:18:44 ben Exp $
\C{errors} Common error messages
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See \k{config-ssh-encryption} for more information on this message.
\H{errors-toomanyauth} \q{Server sent disconnect message type 2
(SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR): "Too many authentication failures for root"}
This message is produced by an OpenSSH (or Sun SSH) server if it
receives more failed authentication attempts than it is willing to
tolerate. This can easily happen if you are using Pageant and have a
large number of keys loaded into it. This can be worked around on the
server by disabling public-key authentication or (for Sun SSH only) by
increasing \c{MaxAuthTries} in \c{sshd_config}. Neither of these is a
really satisfactory solution, and we hope to provide a better one in a
future version of PuTTY.
\H{errors-memory} \q{Out of memory}
This occurs when PuTTY tries to allocate more memory than the system