ssh localhost connection closed by 127.0.0.1?

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So, I'm going through this tutorial (Running Hadoop on windows using cygwin...) to setup hadoop on my WINDOWS (please don't ask why I would use Linux). So I got to this point that I need to SSH to my localhost and test the SSH using Cygwin, but it closes the connection and says: Connection closed by 127.0.0.1 I've googled a lot but couldn't find any proper answer for my problem. P.S.: I'm running cygwin on Windows 7 professional x64 any idea? BTW, Here is a sample run: ``` $ ssh -v localhost OpenSSH_6.0p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/Soroush/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 debug1: identity file /home/Soroush/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /home/Soroush/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/Soroush/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /home/Soroush/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/Sorou…

Accepted Answer

When you installed `Cygwin` and ran `ssh-host-config`, you might have created user `cyg_server`. So when you are connecting to `ssh`, you need to use the user `cyg_server@localhost`.

When you run ssh with that user, it will ask you for the password that you provided when you ran `ssh-host-config`.

```
$ ssh cyg_server@localhost
cyg_server@localhost's password:
Last login: Mon Dec 31 01:14:44 2012 from ::1
cyg_server@polorumpus ~
$
```

I hope it will be useful.

ssh localhost connection closed by 127.0.0.1?

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