I want to use OpenSSH to connect to a server on which the harden_suse

-----Original Message----- From: Appeldorn [mailto:appeldorn@codixx.de] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:57 AM To: Wagner, Uwe Subject: RE: [suse-security] ssh and harden_suse script

was installed. If I try 'ssh servername' the connection was refused by the server. The message is : ssh_exchange_identification. If I try to connect with ssh to another server with not installed the harden_suse script, it works.

Think not the harden script is the point, but your known_hosts file. Once a connection to a remote machine was established 1st time, the identificantion will be written to ~/.ssh/known_hosts. If the ID of a remote machine changes, e.g. cause someone installs it new, you'll get such messages while connecting. Simply remove the part in ~/.ssh/known_hosts that depends on this machine. Michael