Enter a host name to connect to: [abc123] xyz123 Enter your username on that host: [login12] login12 And your password: log123 abc123: Reading configuration data /home/dba/.ssh/config abc123: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config abc123: Connecting to xyz123, port 22. abc123: Remote version string: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.1 abc123: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_4.1 abc123: Net::SSH::Perl Version 1.30, protocol version 2.0. abc123: No compat match: OpenSSH_4.1. abc123: Connection established. abc123: Sent key-exchange init (KEXINIT), wait response. abc123: Algorithms, c->s: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none abc123: Algorithms, s->c: 3des-cbc hmac-sha1 none abc123: Entering Diffie-Hellman Group 1 key exchange. abc123: Sent DH public key, waiting for reply. abc123: Received host key, type 'ssh-dss'. abc123: Host 'xyz123' is known and matches the host key. abc123: Computing shared secret key. abc123: Verifying server signature. abc123: Waiting for NEWKEYS message. abc123: Enabling incoming encryption/MAC/compression. abc123: Send NEWKEYS, enable outgoing encryption/MAC/compression. abc123: Sending request for user-authentication service. abc123%