Re: [coLinux-users] Allocation of pty refused by openssh server

[Milandro S. <ex...@ya...>]

Claude Le Dû <ledu.claude@...> writes:

> 
> Colinux 0.7.1 - Fedora Core5 2006.8 from sourceforge - Putty - Xming
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I spend little time to have this set working with Windows XP SP2.
> I added some packages including kdebase, openssh,server-ssh, client-ssh 
> using yum.
> All works fine except one thing I could not fix.
> I cannot get a connexion with a pty with Putty (Putty on Windows or 
> Colinux to openssh on Colinux).
> "Server refused to allocate pty".
> 1) I created all  /dev/pty's with MAKEDEV in the colinux /dev directory 
> but it was not sufficient
> 2) Launching sshd with "-d" option shows that the function "openpty" is 
> not available on the Fedora root-fs (?)
> 
> I tried to find which package brings this libary without succes.
> Can you tell me if I made a mistake? Is there an update to do?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Claude Le Du
> 
> (for information, in order to have passwords available with Fedora C5 I 
> had also to unistall et reinstall craklib-dicts in the root-fs)
> 
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Hi, 

I had the same error when I try to SSH on coLinux, I've tried MAKEDEV pty and
MAKEDEV ptmx they seems to fix the problem but the problem persisted if I
restart or reboot coLinux, ptmx and pty[0-xx] are again missing in the /dev
folder. Looking around I found out that you can fix this error permanently by
editing /etc/udev/makedev.d/50-udev.nodes, just append ptmx and pty[0-xx] then
restart coLinux. In my case I just appended ptmx and my SSH works.

Regards