ssh as root

["nate@firetrail.com" <nate@firetrail.com>]

I'm curious if this is a bug or a config option or am i smoking crack. I
have 2 identical (more or less) potato systems, and wanted to scp a tar
file to the other machine. the command was:

# scp /tmp/filename.tar admin@remote_host:/tmp

I get
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
lost connection

when i exit back out of the su, it connects fine. since i am not "logging
in" as root i don't understand why it would(if it is) drop the
connection. i checked the sshd_config and it looked ok ..i don't have
identd running on either host, maybe SSH is telling the remote system what
user i am? somehow i would think that would be bad if it was.

or maybe my crackpipe needs cleaning ..

any ideas??

thanks!

nate

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