Hello,
I've been trying to get OpenSSH to work on my linux virtual machine. I
can get it to work as long as I'm logged on as root. I posted a question
a couple of weeks ago on the same topic. Since that time, I've gotten on
the secureshell list and posted a couple of questions over there. One of
the suggestions I received was to download an older version of OpenSSH and
see if that solved my problem. So I downloaded OpenSSH 2.1.1. It got
me past my problem with the Host key verification failed message. But,
now I'm receiving the following error message:
You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase
I'm running Linux kernel 2.2.16 which I downloaded from Marist sometime
in 2001. Does any of this sound like a Linux problem?
I've downloaded and installed 3 different releases of OpenSSH. I can get
them all to work from the ROOT userid, but not from anyone else. In all
cases the SSH executable has the setuid bit on.
I'll attach the last output from my SSH client when I invoked the command
with the -v option.
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$ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -l yyyyyyy -v
SSH Version OpenSSH_2.1.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
Compiled with SSL (0x0090603f).
debug: Reading configuration data /usr/local/etc/ssh_config
debug: Seeding random number generator
debug: ssh_connect: getuid 503 geteuid 0 anon 0
debug: Connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] port 22.
debug: Seeding random number generator
debug: Allocated local port 1013.
debug: Connection established.
debug: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_2.9p2
debug: Local version string SSH-1.5-OpenSSH_2.1.1
debug: Waiting for server public key.
debug: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits).
debug: Host 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug: Seeding random number generator
debug: Encryption type: 3des
debug: Sent encrypted session key.
debug: Installing crc compensation attack detector.
debug: Received encrypted confirmation.
debug: Doing password authentication.
You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase.
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Thanks for all your help.
Mike Spaniol
Blackwell's Book Services
6024 SW Jean Road, Building G.
Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035
Phone: (503) 684-1140 ext. 1231
