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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:28:05 +0100
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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Subject: Re: ssh won't work from initial ram disk in 2.4.18
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:28:05AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> I'm using a 2.4.18 kernel and ssh 3.0.2, and I'm trying to run ssh from t=
he=20
> initrd, and it's refusing to work.  The exact same setup works booted fro=
m a=20
> small partition, but if I take a tarball of that filesystem and dump it i=
nto=20
> a ramdisk, ssh always fails to authenticate.  (Public key or password, it=
=20
> doesn't matter.  When I run it from sh in initrd, it doesn't even prompt =
me=20
> for a password, just prints out three failure messages and exits.  The sa=
me=20
> setup from /dev/hda1 works just fine...)

ssh tries to talk to your console.
Which apparently has not yet been assigned / set up.

Regards,
--=20
Kurt Garloff                   <kurt@garloff.de>         [Eindhoven, NL]
Physics: Plasma simulations  <K.Garloff@Phys.TUE.NL>  [TU Eindhoven, NL]
Linux: SCSI, Security          <garloff@suse.de>    [SuSE Nuernberg, DE]
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