Hello, until this morning I was able to ssh from my ubuntu client to my fedora core 9 server. suddenly (without any config change on the server or the client), I couldn't ssh anymore: I could still enter the password, authentication seems to be ok, but no shell prompt :-( so I am wondering what's going on here. since it is difficult to physically access the machine, I would be very happy to receive a suggestion for a workaround. below is the last part of the ssh -vvv output (I replaced the real machine name by mymachine.mydomain) I can still ssh to other servers from my client. cheers, dirk debug1: Next authentication method: password dirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: debug3: packet_send2: adding 64 (len 58 padlen 6 extra_pad 64) debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply debug1: Authentication succeeded (password). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug3: ssh_session2_open: channel_new: 0 debug2: channel 0: send open debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1 debug3: channel 0: status: The following connections are open: #0 client-session (t3 r-1 i0/0 o0/0 fd 4/6 cfd -1) debug3: channel 0: close_fds r 4 w 6 e 7 c -1 Read from remote host mymachine.mydomain: Connection reset by peer Connection to mymachine.mydomain closed. debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 110 bytes in 0.0 seconds debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 4537.2 debug1: Exit status -1