on my development machine I have a couple of ID files provided by my employee and projects I work on. I have to connect to a SFTP server that supports both certificate based and password based authentication. The problem is now, even though that I configured a server connection using a password authentication, FileZilla probes each of my identity files first and thus exceeds the number auf authentication requests permitted by the server.
As far as I understood the SSH/SFTP protocol the server just provides the supported authentication mechanism to the client and the client chooses the method that is most suitable. From the logs I see that FileZilla on my MacOS Mojave uses Pagent for probing each of my identity files against the server. While I understand that probing each of the identitiy files first is probably the most convenient option for most users, on explicitly selecting password as connection type I'd expect that the specified password should be attempted first.
How can I avoid probing each identity file for that particular server in my FileZilla client or at least prefer password authentication to the identity files if specified as such?13:22:10 Trace: We claim version: SSH-2.0-FileZilla_3.40.0
13:22:10 Trace: Server version: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.6
13:22:10 Trace: Using SSH protocol version 2
13:22:10 Trace: Doing ECDH key exchange with curve Curve25519 and hash SHA-256
13:22:10 Trace: Host key fingerprint is:
13:22:10 Trace: ssh-rsa 2048 97:78:da:4f:8a:f1:50:c6:ef:7a:b7:f8:25:28:01:31 3QI8TlNcqsaLhCKnaULxQCRh+RZ+lEaXg4xllXr89nY=
13:22:10 Trace: Initialised AES-256 GCM client->server encryption
13:22:10 Trace: Initialised AES256 GCM client->server MAC algorithm (in ETM mode) (required by cipher)
13:22:10 Trace: Initialised AES-256 GCM server->client encryption
13:22:10 Trace: Initialised AES256 GCM server->client MAC algorithm (in ETM mode) (required by cipher)
13:22:10 Trace: Pageant is running. Requesting keys.
13:22:10 Trace: Pageant has 8 SSH-2 keys
13:22:10 Trace: Trying Pageant key #0
13:22:10 Trace: Server refused our key
13:22:10 Trace: Trying Pageant key #1
13:22:10 Trace: Server refused our key
13:22:10 Trace: Trying Pageant key #2
13:22:10 Trace: Server refused our key
13:22:10 Trace: Trying Pageant key #3
13:22:10 Trace: Server refused our key
13:22:10 Trace: Trying Pageant key #4
13:22:10 Trace: Server refused our key
13:22:10 Trace: Trying Pageant key #5
13:22:10 Trace: Received disconnect message (protocol error)
13:22:10 Trace: Disconnection message text: Too many authentication failures
13:22:10 Trace: Server sent disconnect message
13:22:10 Trace: type 2 (protocol error):
13:22:10 Trace: "Too many authentication failures"