title: SSH Connection Closed by Port 22
body: <p>I'm trying to establish an SSH connection to my CPanel server. I am using my mac to do this. However, after generating the keys and saving/authorizing the public key to the server, I am unable to create an SSH connection.</p>
  
  <p>I promise I've looked at all the other related solutions, such as changing permissions, checking that the key is authorized on the server, etc.</p>
  
  <p>Here are the results:</p>
  
  <pre><code>.ssh % ssh -vvv cpanelusername@site.com
  OpenSSH_8.1p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3
  debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
  debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 47: Applying options for *
  debug1: Connecting to site.com port 22.
  debug1: Connection established.
  debug1: identity file /Users/user/.ssh/id_rsa type 0
  debug1: identity file /Users/user/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
  debug1: identity file /Users/user/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
  debug1: identity file /Users/user/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
  debug1: identity file /Users/user/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
  debug1: identity file /Users/user/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
  debug1: identity file /Users/user/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
  debug1: identity file /Users/user/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
  debug1: identity file /Users/user/.ssh/id_xmss type -1
  debug1: identity file /Users/user/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1
  debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.1
  debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.3
  debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.3 pat OpenSSH_5* compat 0x0c000002
  debug3: fd 5 is O_NONBLOCK
  debug1: Authenticating to site.com:22 as 'cpanelusername'
  debug3: hostkeys_foreach: reading file "/Users/user/.ssh/known_hosts"
  debug3: send packet: type 20
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
  Connection closed by 107.180.56.153 port 22
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After doing a lot of research, I am still confused as to what these debugs mean and why my connection is being closed. If anyone has any insight to why I can't connect or can explain the debugs, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!</p>