Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:27:16 -0500 From: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd warning: Remote host failed -- FIXED Message-ID: <02020618271601.03010@mercedes.local.domain> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020206151602.04c11610@pop3s.schulte.org> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020206151602.04c11610@pop3s.schulte.org>
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On Wednesday 06 February 2002 04:23 pm, Christopher Schulte wrote: > 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. It's a firewall. There's no way in except the console, so what could be using pseudo ttys? I added two and both are unused. > > Read the faq, it discusses a solution, which involves making more ptty > devices, possibly compiling a new kernel. Well, fsck me. That's what I forgot. There's no support for pty's in the kernel. Easily fixed. Sometimes it just takes a different perspective. Thanks Chris Browning brownicm@prokyon.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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