From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 15:23:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls05.mediaone.net (chmls05.ne.ipsvc.net [24.147.1.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6687237B420 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:23:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mercedes.local.domain (h000103d2e005.ne.mediaone.net [66.31.215.27]) by chmls05.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g16NNau11834 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:23:37 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chris Browning Reply-To: brownicm@prokyon.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd warning: Remote host failed -- FIXED Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:27:16 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020206151602.04c11610@pop3s.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020206151602.04c11610@pop3s.schulte.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02020618271601.03010@mercedes.local.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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