'Server refused our key' error when Pageant offers a world‑readable private key
Goal: Configure PuTTY to stop prompting for a password after a defined number of failed attempts when the remote account’s password has expired, or to automatically try an alternative authentication method instead of repeating the prompt indefinitely. Constraint: PuTTY’s current password‑authentication loop has no built‑in retry limit or fallback mechanism,
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