Re: [gentoo-user] ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

[Mick]

On Saturday 16 September 2006 13:05, Kevin Fullerton wrote:

> I had the same problem yesterday on two Gentoo machines here, and from
> doing lsof | grep sshd it seemed that sshd was being run from
> /var/tmp/portage rather than /usr/sbin - I think i re-emerged ssh and
> restarted the sshd service a few times and it sorted it out.

From the recent openssh-4.3_p2-r1 update messages:

 * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/ and then
 * restart sshd: '/etc/init.d/sshd restart'.

HTH
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Regards,
Mick