From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 11:45:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B756237B405 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from regina.plastikos.com (216-107-106-250.wan.networktel.net [216.107.106.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7487B43FCB for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:45:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from praetor.linc-it.com (praetor.linc-it.com [66.147.26.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by regina.plastikos.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4ED6EEEE for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 14:45:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (adsl-156-171-156.jan.bellsouth.net [66.156.171.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by praetor.linc-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C99BB15493; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:48:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 87C2E20F2D; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:48:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:48:29 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Thomas Park Message-ID: <20030609164829.GK28798@over-yonder.net> References: <20030608231157.GI28798@over-yonder.net> <001001c32ea5$e95bb990$11640a0a@titanium> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001001c32ea5$e95bb990$11640a0a@titanium> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/tty keeps changing permissions..? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:45:25 -0000 On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:41:01AM -0700 I heard the voice of Thomas Park, and lo! it spake thus: > > Interesting. I have access to several FreeBSD 4.6 STABLE boxes, and > /dev/tty on each of them looks thusly: 4.x doesn't have devfs, so /dev is static. It's just internally (in the kernel) that /dev/tty becomes 'dynamic' pointing to the current tty. In 5.x with devfs, it shows through in /dev. > I'm pretty sure the ssh problem is with /dev/tty - I've scoured quite a > few message boards and newsgroups looking for a solution to the SSH > problem. The symptom:a user who doesn't currently own /dev/tty attempts > to open an outbound SSH session and gets a permission denied error with > an error message along the lines of "Host key verification failed." SCP > likewise doesn't work. Don't say, show :) Try `ssh -vvv` to be really verbose about it. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"