Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

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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