ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

[Darren Tucker]

Alfred Hovdestad wrote:
[snip]
> I am running RedHat 9.0 on both systems with all of the latest patches
> from RedHat.  The current rpm for openssh is openssh-3.5p1-6.9.  I have
> PAM configured to use kerberos for password authentication.  The only
> difference in the two scenarios is the Kerberos server.  We have a two
> kerberos servers, one a Windows Domain Controller and the other a Sun.
> 
> If I use the Windows DC for Kerberos authentication, I can login at the
> console, I can generate a kerberos ticket (kinit), but I cannot login
> with ssh.
> 
> If I use the Sun for kerberos authentication, I can login at the
> console, I can generate a kerberos ticket (kinit), and I can login with ssh.
> 
> If I downgrade to the previous rpm from RedHat (openssh-3.5p1-6), I can
> login with ssh to the server.  If it would help, I can also generate the
> log file for the previous version.

It sounds like you need to ask Redhat about this one.  Both packages use
the same base OpenSSH version with (presumably) different patches.

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