Connection closed message when trying to connect with ssh using public key authentication to OpenSSH_5.1

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Vivekananda Ganihar wrote:

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> ...and ssh-host-config several times. I can ssh from this windows

What about ssh-user-config?  Did you read
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README?

> box to another unix box, but not the other way. What am I missing ?
> 
> debug1: Offering public key: /u/xxxxx/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug3: send_pubkey_test
> debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
> Connection closed by xx.xx.xxx.xxx

So this is the output of 'ssh -v -v -v' from the Linux machine to the
Windows box?  Have you set up your user keys on both machines and told the
other about them?

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