Thanks Nathan. I tried all you suggested (one at a time) but none of the suggestions work. Any other tricks of the trade to try? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Nathan England wrote: > > 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 >