Thankyou that was the problem. I was pulling my hair out.  Now I just have to 
figure out how to make that stick so that when i go to level 4 the hosts.deny 
file will have what I want in it.   The only problem is i dont konw what 
files to modify.


On Tuesday 19 February 2002 12:31 am, you wrote:
> Well, the reason for it lies in your /etc/hosts.deny file. ssh uses the tcp
> wrapper and so it uses that file. And I bet that if you look into your
> file, it says deny to all. Not I believe that even if you change the file
> by hand, msec overwrites it priodically. Either change msec by hand, go to
> a lower level, or don't use it.
>
> Quoting Jeremy Salch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > no it does it when i try to connect to it as anyone
> >
> > On Tuesday 19 February 2002 12:09 am, you wrote:
> > > > whenever I go to msec level 4 i always get this message when trying
> > > > to connect to it
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > how do i fix this.  it works fine in level 3 but when i go to level 4
> > >
> > > it all
> > >
> > > > craps out
> > >
> > > As root?

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