Troubleshoot "could not write ident string" error

Reuti reuti at staff.uni-marburg.de
Thu Apr 6 19:34:32 AEST 2017


Hi,

> Am 06.04.2017 um 11:22 schrieb David Rabel <rabel at b1-systems.de>:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I have an sshd running in a virtual machine running openSUSE 12.3. I
> want to connect to that VM via ssh (the host OS is Debian Testing), but
> it fails. In the syslog of the VM I only recieve ""could not write ident
> string to <IP>", even with LogLevel set to DEBUG.

Can you connect local inside the VM to itself by ssh, and/or does it only effect the external connection?

-- Reuti


> 
> I had a brief look at the source code but was not able to understand
> what is going wrong. Searching for that error message on the web did not
> produce any useful results.
> 
> Do you have any hint for me how to troubleshoot this issue?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Yours
>  David
> 
> 
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