Hi Michael, it sounds to me like somewhere your permissions got messed up or the ssh server keys are invalid. Check the following: 1) Your bmike1 permissions should be 600 on the files inside .ssh and .ssh itself should be 700 chmod 700 ~/.ssh chmod 600 ~/.ssh/* 2) Maybe your hostname is in the /etc/hosts.deny file. Read that file on the machine you are ssh'ing to and make sure your other machines are not listed there. 3) Try recreating your ssh keys on the machine you are ssh'ing to. rm /etc/ssh/*key* ssh-keygen -A Try it now... You ssh into the machine and certain metrics are read and then you are mounting the virtual kernel file systems and that is when things change and you cannot access the machine a second time. Not sure off the top of my head why that would be except maybe something in /tmp or /dev is being over- written. Anyway, hope something there helps. On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 04:24:26 PM Michael Havens wrote: > ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer -- Regards, Nathan England ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NME Consulting Services http://www.nmecs.com Nathan England ( nathan@nmecs.com ) Systems Administration / Web Application Development Information Security Consulting (480) 559.9681 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss