What does the output of
ssh -vv <hostname>

give you?

and what does /var/log/secure say on the server side?

Permission denied could be a number of things (time not in sync,
PAM configuration right, or other stuff.  without knowing the
server and client sshd_config and ssh_config respectively it is hard to 
tell.

Steve Timm


On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Joseph Areeda wrote:

> I can't figure out what causes this error.
>
> I can "fix" it by regenerating the server key on the system I'm trying to 
> connect to and restarting sshd but that seems to be temporary as the same 
> problem comes back in a week or so.  Rebooting the server does not fix it.
>
> Does anyone know what that error means?  I am using ssh not gsissh although I 
> do have globus toolkit installed to contact grid computers.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's a misconfiguration on my part but I can't figure out 
> what I did or didn't do.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>

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