How to prevent multiple authentication attempts?

Question

My company has a security policy that blocks an account after more than 3 failed login attempts.

I have a lot of repositories that were using the same old stored credentials, and now that I've changed my password if I attempt a pull before changing the credentials for the repository I get my account blocked because Sourcetree always attempts to authenticate 4 times.

How I can set Sourcetree to attempt only once?

Daniel Nunes_irz638 · Answer

Hi there, one thing that I've done to 'fix' this was to uncheck the option 'Check default remote for updates every 10 minutes' in Tools -> Option -> General tab. It seems to have avoided this issue.

jan.paija · Answer

This needs to be addressed. Using AD authentication, it can't just keep spewing failing login attempts, as this locks accounts quickly!

Jeff Irwin · Answer

Has this been addressed yet? I am in the same situation at my company... three login attempts and I'm hosed.

The solution sounds simple enough in theory, but gets complicated in a hurry when using a number of different machines (like I do). If I forget that one of the machines has not been updated with the new password, then the next time I use it... BAM! And now I need to update all my repos on this machine with the new password, and also the repos on all of my  other machines as well.