Yes , Perl is very picky about ttys in general, that's one reason most of
us here (see sig below) have switched to Python. I wrote a huge app in
Python that threaded hundreds of ssh sessions (actually scp sessions) with
no worry about tty problems.
Carl
On 31-Aug-00 agony wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I'm writing a script in perl that uses the Expect.pm module. I use it
> to call ssh to log into another server. The remote sshd, however,
> returns an error on the login attempt:
>
> You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase.
>
> I've gotten it to work using the real tcl-based 'expect' program. Has
> anyone encountered and dealt with this problem in perl?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken Trenkelbach
>
> ps - in case it matters:
>
> SSH Version OpenSSH-1.2.2, protocol version 1.5.
> Compiled with SSL.
>
> and
>
> sshd version OpenSSH-1.2.2
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