Hi,

i'm using the latest Ubuntu HotSSH Package. I try to connect to a foreign server via public key. The connect is successful. But in the secure-log of the server i see periodical connects from my machine. The problem is that these additional connects uses the current username (otto) not the specified one (root). I only recognized these errors because the remote server uses fail2ban - so after a few seconds after a successful login i always get dropped by the firewall...

normal connects via ssh command-line are not connecting periodically - is this some kind of hotssh-keepalive feature?

Otto


May  9 21:07:37 phx sshd[11184]: Accepted publickey for root from ::ffff:x.x.x.x port 61589 ssh2
May  9 21:07:39 phx sshd[11236]: Invalid user otto from ::ffff:x.x.x.x
May  9 21:07:39 phx sshd[11237]: input_userauth_request: invalid user otto
May  9 21:07:39 phx sshd[11237]: Connection closed by ::ffff:x.x.x.x
May  9 21:07:43 phx sshd[11262]: Invalid user otto from ::ffff:x.x.x.x
May  9 21:07:43 phx sshd[11263]: input_userauth_request: invalid user otto
May  9 21:07:43 phx sshd[11263]: Connection closed by ::ffff:x.x.x.x
May  9 21:07:48 phx sshd[11278]: Invalid user otto from ::ffff:x.x.x.x
May  9 21:07:48 phx sshd[11282]: input_userauth_request: invalid user otto
May  9 21:07:52 phx sshd[11294]: Invalid user otto from ::ffff:x.x.x.x
May  9 21:07:52 phx sshd[11295]: input_userauth_request: invalid user otto
May  9 21:07:52 phx sshd[11295]: Connection closed by ::ffff:x.x.x.x