YA SSH newbie

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1st, Gentlemen, thank you for your time and efforts spent with this. 
--it's greatly appreciated.



*Vram*, No, I did not install RSSH. Further, I've checked for its
existance with negative results.



*Troy*, 

1) RE: -/etc/ssh/sshd_conf-  I'm presuming that since
*PasswordAuthentication yes* is commented out.. that the default is no.



Code:
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    # Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords

  #PasswordAuthentication yes
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2) Upon initial review, both -/etc/hosts.deny- and -/etc/hosts.allow-
had no active entries.

-- I've since modified -/etc/hosts.allow- and added the following two
lines:

ALL:192.168.7.

ALL:LOCAL



After the changes in (2) above, I'm still getting the same response. 

"connection refused"



I've strippd all the comments from ~sshd_conf and  included it below.


Code:
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    Port 22

  ListenAddress 192.139.7.9

  Protocol 2

  HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key

  HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

  UsePrivilegeSeparation yes

  KeyRegenerationInterval 3600

  ServerKeyBits 768

  SyslogFacility AUTH

  LogLevel INFO

  LoginGraceTime 120

  PermitRootLogin yes

  StrictModes yes

  RSAAuthentication yes

  PubkeyAuthentication yes

  IgnoreRhosts yes

  RhostsRSAAuthentication no

  HostbasedAuthentication no

  PermitEmptyPasswords no

  ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

  X11Forwarding yes

  X11DisplayOffset 10

  PrintMotd no

  PrintLastLog yes

  KeepAlive yes

  AcceptEnv LANG LC_*

  Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server

  UsePAM yes
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