SSH "Too many authentication failures" when trying to connect from Ubuntu to Raspberry Pi

When I try to ssh from my Ubuntu Desktop to Raspberry pi, It throws the error "Too many authentication failures" and dies, and does not prompt me for the password

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After enabling the -v verbose option I found that my SSH client is trying out all available ssh keys stored locally to try and connect to the raspberry pi and then gives up.

Since I want an interactive login (be able to enter the pi/raspberry password manually) when trying to SSH to my raspberry pi, I had to add the following entry to ~/.ssh/ssh_config

Host 192.168.1.10 PreferredAuthentications=password

Note: 1) IP address mentioned above is that of my Raspberry Pi. 2) If you are using an SSH key to login (which you should ideally), you wont need this.