Hi, I am new to the group and I tried looking up for my problem in the archieves first before posting... Well I have cross compiled ssh from a intel machine to a Athlon machine(openssh-5.0p1). I am using PAM for authentication. After this when I boot the athlon machine, it gives "Connection Refused". But when I do ps on the machine, it shows that sshd is running. I kill sshd and retart it, after which it works fine. Can someone help me with this! Regards, Anupam.