Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261728AbUJ1RnY (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:43:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262012AbUJ1RnX (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:43:23 -0400 Received: from fms.tor.istop.com ([66.11.182.43]:6533 "EHLO maximus.fullmotions.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261728AbUJ1RnO (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:43:14 -0400 Subject: Re: SSH and 2.6.9 From: Danny Brow To: Rajsekar , Kernel-List In-Reply-To: References: <1098906712.2972.7.camel@hanzo.fullmotions.com> <1098912301.4535.1.camel@hanzo.fullmotions.com> <1098913797.3495.0.camel@hanzo.fullmotions.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:44:14 -0400 Message-Id: <1098985454.9722.9.camel@hanzo.fullmotions.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1188 Lines: 30 On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:07 +0530, Rajsekar wrote: > No, that is not the actual problem (even though it seems to solve it). > The thing is, /dev/tty should be rw for everyone. > What happens is (it happened to me and CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is `n' in my > case), that ssh tries to open /dev/tty and fails and ends up trying to use > ssh-askpass (some other way to ask for password). > > But I am still not sure how CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=n solves it. > > Change the permissions of /dev/tty to something like 0666 or if you have > udev, edit the permissions.d/* files > > Please give me your feedback. > I think when udev creates the ptys nodes dynamically it corrupts the Legacy ones already create. With CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS turned off there never created and udev is free to do what it wants. It could be the complete reverse though. By the way th settings in permissions.d are 660 for most things including ptys. I'm running slackware. Dan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/