Comment 5 for bug 126165

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 12:15:42PM -0000, Tim Richardson wrote:
> Soren, yes, the java ssh client connects from my Ubuntu desktop (the
> machine from which ssh fails). The connection via Putty on Windows
> works on the same home network (so via my NAT router, the same
> internet IP); I can also connect through a proxy at work using Putty
> or the java client). The remote server is a RedHat machine. The shell
> is jailshell. For what it's worth, once I am logged on to the remote
> server, I can ssh to the remote server (in effect to local host) with
> no problems. So whatever setting problems there may be on the remote
> server, they do not cause problems with the older version of
> openssh-client on the remote server. It appears that there is an
> incompatibility between the two openssh versions. I was able to ssh in
> on older versions of Ubuntu ... Dapper, for example. How can I help to
> further identify the problem?

Could you try prepending 'env -i' to your ssh command line to clear out
the environment? There might be something there that confuses the
server.

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Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
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