attempt to ssh results in "closed by remote host"

[Scott Moser]

Hi,
  Attempting to connect to saucy images in EC2 or cloud-images registered to a openstack cloud of saucy fails.
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$ ssh $uhost
Welcome to Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch) (GNU/Linux 3.9.0-1-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
<snip>
0 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.

Last login: Mon May 13 13:39:05 2013 from xxxx
Connection to ec2-54-234-146-97.compute-1.amazonaws.com closed by remote host.
Connection to ec2-54-234-146-97.compute-1.amazonaws.com closed.

$ ssh -t $uhost /bin/bash
Connection to ec2-54-234-146-97.compute-1.amazonaws.com closed by remote host.
Connection to ec2-54-234-146-97.compute-1.amazonaws.com closed.

$ ssh $uhost lsb_release --codename
Codename: saucy

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: cloud-init 0.7.2~bzr812-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.9.0-1.5-generic 3.9.1
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.10-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 13 13:36:20 2013
Ec2AMI: ami-23c4ab4a
Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1b
Ec2InstanceType: t1.micro
Ec2Kernel: aki-88aa75e1
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: cloud-init
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

As pointed out in ubuntu-devel, this sure seems like it is a dupe of bug 1179202.