Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:18:34 +0100 From: mouss <mouss@netoyen.net> To: Juraj Lutter <wilbuy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Subject: Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Message-ID: <47C4039A.3060907@netoyen.net> In-Reply-To: <47C3DDCF.6070109@gmail.com> References: <47C34D7E.1010305@netoyen.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20080225180357.025db140@mail.computinginnovations.com> <47C35CCC.9090300@netoyen.net> <47C3DDCF.6070109@gmail.com>
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Juraj Lutter wrote:
> mouss wrote:
>>
>> I tried with secureCRT and with openssh from a netbsd, debian and
>> centos boxes. same error.
>> I googled for the error, and it seems popular!
>> - I don't think it's an /etc/host* issue, as I was connected to the
>> box multiple times (and I tried from multiple IPs).
>> - I tried from a vmware hosts with no keys, just to make sure it's
>> not a key issue.
>>
>> could this be a dns issue? the host is running a "caching" bind. I
>> would prefer not to disable dns lookup, but if this causes trouble...
>
>
> This seems to be more a /etc/hosts.allow issue.
>
I found the problem:
fatal: /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
I have created an account and set the home to /var/empty, but this
changed the owner of /var/empty. sigh.
I should have found
http://www.darkknight.demon.co.uk/prdb/unix/ssh.html
sooner ;-p
thanks to all who responded.
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