I've been successfully running sshd on a Red Hat Linux server for many months so that I can access it over the Internet when out of town. Just this week it started to fail and I can't figure out why. I've tried removing and reinstalling but no joy. Here's the debug session below if someone can help me. Please send me email as well as the list. Thanks, Harv SSH Version OpenSSH_2.1.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0. Compiled with SSL (0x0090581f). debug: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug: Applying options for * debug: Seeding random number generator debug: ssh_connect: getuid 0 geteuid 0 anon 1 debug: Connecting to king4 [24.28.133.30] port 22. debug: Connection established. debug: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_2.1.1 debug: Local version string SSH-1.5-OpenSSH_2.1.1 debug: Waiting for server public key. debug: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits). debug: Host 'king4' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug: Seeding random number generator debug: Encryption type: blowfish debug: Sent encrypted session key. debug: Installing crc compensation attack detector. debug: Received encrypted confirmation. debug: Trying RSA authentication with key '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' debug: Received RSA challenge from server. debug: Sending response to host key RSA challenge. debug: Remote: RSA authentication accepted. Connection closed by 22.26.143.31 debug: Calling cleanup 0x805bfe0(0x0)