I was getting this error when trying to SSH to a brand new CentOS 7 VM I was setting up. I hadn't even done anything yet, so I was confused until I realized I had hit the 'MaxAuthTries' limit configred in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the VM by issuing a single command.
I have a few (ok, 9) SSH keys in my ~/.ssh directory. When you issue an SSH connection request without specifying which key to use via the -i option, SSH tries to use each key.
The default MaxAuthTries value on a CentOS 7 box is 6.
When running Puppet in masterless mode, meaning there is no Puppet Master for the node to connect to, one of the problems you have to solve is how to get all your Puppet modules onto the node. Without going into all the possible ways of doing this, one nice and clean way to solve the problem is to use a Puppetfile.
If you know what a Ruby gemfile is, you can guess what a Puppetfile is. If you don't, think of a very simple list declaring the modules that a node should get, including ways to get those modules. Like this:
Generate a Linux password hash suitable for shadow file
Need
Someone gives me a password to configure for a local Linux user account. We're managing local user accounts with Puppet, which needs a hash just like the one that's in /etc/shadow. Setting the password through manual means is not an option.