On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 04:58:27PM +0000, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 04:42:13PM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > So putty drops the connection before auth'ing: > > > > debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent [preauth] > > debug1: Sending SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO [preauth] > > debug3: send packet: type 7 [preauth] > > debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS [preauth] > > Connection closed by 192.168.69.109 port 5821 [preauth] > > debug1: monitor_read_log: child log fd closed > > Is it possible that this installation of putty has previously communicated > with something else at the same IP address and has credentials stored that > don't match the current OpenBSD installation?
According to the documentation, this Putty uses whatever it saved for that host, which may not be correct. https://documentation.help/PuTTY/config-ssh-hostkey-order.html It looks like it's failing on host key exchange. -- Stuart A. McKim, P.E. Idaho Falls, ID
