[Expectperl-discuss] Expect on Solaris: could not connect pty as controlling terminal

[Tom C. <tom...@me...>]

Hopefully, someone that has experienced this same issue has found a
resolution...

I'm driving a perl expect script on a Solaris box through a remote execution
daemon on the box.  The perl expect script is performing SFTP.  The expect
trace shows the following error:

Error: could not connect pty as controlling terminal!

When performing Public key Authentication, the script successfully performs
its work even though the error occurs.  However, when performing Password
Authentication the password prompt is never received when the
'keyboard-interactive' auth method is performed.  I need to support both
Public Key and Password authentication.

When I run the perl expect script manually from a shell prompt on the
Solaris box (not through the remote execution daemon), Password
Authentication is successful and no error occurs.

The 'could not connect pty as controlling terminal' error does NOT occur on
Linux when executing through the remote execution daemon...it's only an
issue on Solaris.  Is there a way to resolve this on Solaris???

Thanks in advance for any assistance,

Tom