> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 5 13:55:38 2000
> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:26:48 +0000
> From: Andrew Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: No controlling tty
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a debian potato system on a motherboard that is non standard. I does
>not have any keyboard
> or mouse ports built on it. I took a working hard drive out of another of my
>machines here and
> moved it into the new 1-U high case with the non-standard MB. All is working
>fine except for ssh.
> When I ssh I receive the following error: "You have no controlling tty.
>Cannot read psssphrase.".
> 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. I believe the two are directly related.
>Could someone please tell
> me where I need to look. Can I recompile ssh with option X dis/en-abled?
>Thanks in advance for any
> assistance.
You get the "no controlling tty" message when;
- ssh'ng out of the spud
(Do you have enough pty's defined on the spud?)
- or ssh'ng into the spud?
(You have sshd running on the spud, right?)
Did you try ssh -t?
Paul
