On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:34:00PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > No brilliant ideas here. Which OS & version of ssh is the remote side > running? Are you able to restart sshd on the remote end? The remote side is FreeBSD 6.2 and OpenSSH 4.5p1. I cannot restart sshd on the remote end. Kurt -- Are you sure the back door is locked?