Troubleshooting ssh error

Today, I needed to setup ssh on a newly installed Ubuntu machine. Setting up ssh itself was straight forward install openssh-server start it via systemctl enable the port in the firewall But when I tried connecting it from other machine, I got the following error: Received disconnect from 192.168.1.110 port 22:2: Too many authentication failures 1 When I tried to get help, GenAI focused on Too many authentication part of the error, and gave me suggestions to change server to allow more attempts.

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