Juraj Lutter wrote: > mouss wrote: >> >> I tried with secureCRT and with openssh from a netbsd, debian and >> centos boxes. same error. >> I googled for the error, and it seems popular! >> - I don't think it's an /etc/host* issue, as I was connected to the >> box multiple times (and I tried from multiple IPs). >> - I tried from a vmware hosts with no keys, just to make sure it's >> not a key issue. >> >> could this be a dns issue? the host is running a "caching" bind. I >> would prefer not to disable dns lookup, but if this causes trouble... > > > This seems to be more a /etc/hosts.allow issue. > I found the problem: fatal: /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. I have created an account and set the home to /var/empty, but this changed the owner of /var/empty. sigh. I should have found http://www.darkknight.demon.co.uk/prdb/unix/ssh.html sooner ;-p thanks to all who responded.Received on Tue Feb 26 2008 - 11:18:38 UTC
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