ssh problem

[Gregory Nowak]

Thanks Janina, that's the correct explanation all right.
How dumb of me to not think about the changes I've made to my system recently!
Greg


On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:24:28PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hi, Greg:
> 
> Check your /etc/hosts.allow and your /etc/hosts.deny.
> 
> Hosts.allow is processed first, and a match there will proceed to login.
> If there is no specification in hosts.allow, and hosts.deny is set to deny
> all, you have your explanation. 
> 
> Of course, there can certainly be other explanations! <grin>
> 
> 
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have sshd running on my machine , and ssh connections are allowed by my firewall.
> > However, when I try to login via ssh from a remote host as any valid user on my machine, I get the following message.
> > 
> > 
> > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > What exactly is causing this, and how do I fix it?
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
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