Re: pty issues

[Oleg Krivosheev <kriol@bpmail.fnal.gov>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Mark Mealman wrote:

> Has anyone ever seen the below?
> 
> -----------
> cedar:~$ telnet localhost
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> telnetd: getpty: Permission denied
> .
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> cedar:~$ ssh oak
> You have no controlling tty.  Cannot read passphrase.
> 
> cedar:~$ 
> ------------
> 
> I can ssh/rsh in from a remote host fine, but telnets in and ssh's out give
> me a tty error.
> 
> I'm thinking I don't have a permission set correctly, but I'll be damned if
> I know where.
> 
> Been running the above for a couple months, not a critical thing, but it
> bugs the heck outta me.
> 
> I get the above errors from remote logins as well as the console.
> 
> Anyone know what's going on?
> 
> Would appreciate any clues.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Mark
> 
> 

you may run out of ptys...

the number of ptys in the kernel could be increased but it requires
recompilation


regards

OK