David Pick wrote:
I guess I should have given more detail. I am trying to ssh locally ie: ssh -l root
127.1
and I am using openssh 1.2.2-1.4. I am using password authentication. I believe I
have found the
problem. There is a daemon that we wrote inhouse to run on out device thats run out
of inittab and
it is not successfully backgrounding. This is the cause of my problem. If I kill
that daemon and
let init restart it all works great. Could someone please give me some information on
how the above
issues would give me this error. Thanks again in advance.
Andrew
>
> But where are you ssh-ing *from*? Not from the non-existand keyboard or mouse!
>
> Are you ssh-ing from a different machine to this special one?
>
> Are you logging-in to this special one using another mechanism
> and trying to ssh from the special machine?
>
> Or what?
>
> > "You have no controlling tty. Cannot
>read psssphrase.".
>
> If you've set up RSA user authentication the client will need access
> to the provate key. So it needs the passphrase unless:
> 1) you've already stored the decrypted private key in an ssh-sgent, or
> 2) you've used an unencrypted (passphease-less) private key, or
> 3) the session executing the ssh client program is itself started from
> a ssh connection ehich makes a connection to a remote agent available.
>
> > I can not for the life of me figure out how to fix this. Because the MB does NOT
>have any keyboard
> > or mouse ports I cannot run getty on tty1,tty2.tty3 etc... Getty wont start
>because the hardware
> > for it to bind to in not there.
>
> Not applicable: it's a *logical* tty that's needed, not necessarily a
> real serial interface. Serial ports are only one possibility.
>
> > I believe the two are directly related. Could
>someone please tell
> > me where I need to look.
>
> The controlling tty for the session which is trying to run the ssh client
> (on whichever machine that is).
>
> > Can I recompile ssh with option X dis/en-abled?
>
> Of course, but how might that help? You havn't made any other reference to X.
>
> --
> David Pick
