Hello Christopher, thanks for your answer

Make things easy for yourself. First return your ssh config file located in your home directory back to the default settings.

The default on my system was no ssh ssh config file in my home directory. When I delete this file naturly I don't have this problem, since ssh only reads the system-wide configuration file, but I need this file to apply special settings for an user.

Next ensure that the "ListenAddress" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config is set to your correct IP. Also set "PermitRootLogin" to no.

Give "rcsshd reload" and then "rcsshd restart" ago and let me know what happens.

Okay, "ListenAddress" was not set in my sshd_config and "PermitRootLogin" was set to without-password. I changed the settings to your sugestions, but nothing changed. Ssh still reads and applys the /etc/ssh/ssh_config before the file in my home/.ssh directory. Excuse me if made myself not totally clear in my first message ( or if I have a wrong understanding of your sugestions ). I don't have any problems with incoming ssh connections to that system, but with connections originating on that system. Joerg Ruhe Joerg.Ruhe@epost.de