Subject: Re: ssh to OSX box
From: Neil Jolly (neil@jollycom.ca)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 17:35:25 MDT
On June 18, 2001 05:54 am, you wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Neil Jolly wrote:
> >While this is not directly related to ydl I'm hoping someone may know
> >the answer here. When I ssh from my ydl box to my OS X box I recieve the
> >error: Received disconnect from 192.168.0.2: 2: Bad packet length
> >-1187358117
>
> I have a similar problem, and I think it is because of incompatibilities
> with the newer OpenSSH client. This isn't the first time this has
> happened either. The only thing I can think of to remedy the problem is to
> have the same versions of OpenSSH on both machines. If you find another
> solution, please let me know.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
I upgraded the version on the OS X box to 2.9p1, and added the following to
the sshd_config on the OS X box:
HostKey /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
All works fine now.
Neil
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