Re: Connection closed, no reason given

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_gate.dodgy.net.au)
Date: 11/05/05 

Date: 05 Nov 2005 00:06:17 GMT

On 2005-11-04, jois.de.vivre@gmail.com <jois.de.vivre@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> I copied the entry from id_dsa.pub into the remote machine's
> .ssh/authorized_keys file and expected to be able to login without a
> problem. However, when I try and login now it simply says
>
> Connection closed by 192.168.1.108
>
> And I can't ssh into it anymore. I suspect the problem is in the
> authorized_keys file, how can I force it to not look in there without
> having to go to that machine and manually delete the entry?

You're using OpenSSH? (looks like it but you don't say)

I suspect you corrupted the key while copying it into authorized_keys.
Depending on exactly how it was corrupted, earlier versions of OpenSSH
didn't handle that well and would abort the connection. This has been
fixed for a while.

You can prevent you client from trying public-key authentication
which will probably let you log in ok. For OpenSSH, this is
"ssh -oPreferredAuthentications=password yourserver" (or possibly
keyboard-interactive instead of password). For other clients it will
probably be different. 

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