Re: Privilege separation user sshd does not exist

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 13:38 +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
Dallas Clement wrote:
[...]
Now I'm having problems with configuring the pty for this user. Can you
give me any tips here?

Make sure you have /dev/pts mounted (if you have devpts configured in
your kernel) or that you have the pty device nodes in /dev/ (if you
don't have devpts in your kernel). It's been a while since I had to do
the latter, but "cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV pty" will probably do it.


I've got /dev/pts mounted:

# mount
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)

I've also got a pty device defined:

# ls -l dev
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 0 Jun 5 12:24 ptyp0


But I'm still seeing an error in the sshd log:

error: openpty: No such file or directory

I think I'm awfully close, but there's something else not quite right.

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