I have the same problem here. Only on one remote host: sylock@sylock-vmware:~$ ssh -vvv XXXXXX OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-3ubuntu1, OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012 debug1: Reading configuration data /home/sylock/.ssh/config debug1: /home/sylock/.ssh/config line 1: Applying options for * debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for * debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to XXXXXX[172.24.6.18] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/sylock/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/sylock/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /home/sylock/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/sylock/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /home/sylock/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/sylock/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.1 debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.1 pat OpenSSH_5* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-3ubuntu1 debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK debug3: load_hostkeys: loading entries for host "fsmal989" from file "/home/sylock/.ssh/known_hosts" debug3: load_hostkeys: found key type RSA in file /home/sylock/.ssh/known_hosts:269 debug3: load_hostkeys: loaded 1 keys debug3: order_hostkeyalgs: prefer hostkeyalgs: