From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 13:24:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clink.schulte.org (clink.schulte.org [209.134.156.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8A437B421 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:24:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from schulte-laptop.nospam.schulte.org (nb-65.netbriefings.com [209.134.134.65]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79B724410; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:23:58 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020206151602.04c11610@pop3s.schulte.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 15:23:04 -0600 To: brownicm@prokyon.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: sshd warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. In-Reply-To: <02020615560300.03010@mercedes.local.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:56 PM 2/6/2002 -0500, Chris Browning wrote: >I'm trying to set up ssh into my firewall from a local machine. The firewall >rules are set up. sshd seems to be set up; I have it running successfully on >other machines. I can log into the firewall but get this: > > brownicm@molly$ ssh brownicm@192.168.1.21 > brownicm@192.168.1.21's password: > Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. > Warning: no access to tty (Bad file descriptor). > Thus no job control in this shell. This is a classic symptom of your box using all of its pseudo ttys. Read the faq, it discusses a solution, which involves making more ptty devices, possibly compiling a new kernel. For future reference: the faq, http://groups.google.com/ or the list archives from freebsd.org would have helped you solve this problem. >Chris Browning >brownicm@prokyon.com -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message