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I wanna login a guest minix system resides inside VirtualBox through ssh and receive the error ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host.

After turn on the verbose flag, the complete output is:

OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-4ubuntu6, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 127.0.0.1 [127.0.0.1] port 5000.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/id/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/id/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/id/.ssh/id_dsa type 2
debug1: Checking blacklist file /usr/share/ssh/blacklist.DSA-1024
debug1: Checking blacklist file /etc/ssh/blacklist.DSA-1024
debug1: identity file /home/id/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: ssh_exchange_identification: \001/usr/bin/in.rshd: unprotected port (39852)

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

The /usr/bin/in.rshd is an ssh server on minix. I can't figure out what's going wrong. What may be the problem?

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Are you completely, absolutely sure in.rshd is a SSH server? It seems that it is using the rsh protocol -- expecting connections from a privileged port, and returning a rsh error message instead of the SSH handshake. – grawity Nov 17 '11 at 20:47
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I don't think that's an ssh server you're connecting to. It appears to be an rsh server, rsh being a predecessor of ssh that didn't have ssh's encryption or strong authentication features.

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