On 1 March 2011 03:33, Mirko Vukovic wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Rafael Kitover <...> wrote:
>>>> I am trying to ssh to g...@github.com, and I get the error >>>> "PTY allocation request failed on channel 0" >> ... >> >> That message is coming from github.com, it does not allow opening >> interactive sessions. You can only use it for git. > > I don't think so. That command works from me from a linux box. > > Futhermore, this ssh connection is documented here: > http://help.github.com/msysgit-key-setup/ > > It is used to test the login to the github.com account. Nevertheless the error message is coming from the server side. Ssh doesn't need to allocate a pty on the client side. It could be that the server is just too busy. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
