Extremelly annoying problem, ssh connections fail with this error: Received disconnect from 140.xxx.xxx.xxx: 2: bind: Permission denied I get this error connecting to a dozen machines or so. SSH connections from other machines (including Win XP, Solaris 9, and RH) all work fine to the same hosts. here is verbose: user@host:~> ssh -v adcbkp15 OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to adcbkp15 [140.87.248.144] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/ccarson/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 debug1: identity file /home/ccarson/.ssh/id_dsa type 2 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.9p1 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Host 'adcbkp15' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /home/ccarson/.ssh/known_hosts:2 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering public key: /home/ccarson/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 149 debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug1: Requesting authentication agent forwarding. debug1: Sending environment. debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8 You can seeit accepts my key, but something pukes after that. I tied removing the pub key and using password auth and same thing. Ugh. I dont wanna have to revert back to FC, but this problem is a major show stopper for me. Thanks for any help, CC