Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 15:23:04 -0600 From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> To: brownicm@prokyon.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020206151602.04c11610@pop3s.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <02020615560300.03010@mercedes.local.domain>
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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
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